Bracket buster — Bracket buster, as a generic phrase, refers to an American college basketball team, usually from a so called mid major school, which upsets a highly ranked team in the NCAA Men s Division I Basketball Tournament.The tournament schedule is set up… … Wikipedia
Bracket clock — A bracket clock is a style of antique portable table clock made in the 17th and 18th centuries. [cite web last = first = authorlink = coauthors = title = Bracket Clock work = Clocks and Watches, Encyclopedia of Antiques publisher = Old and Sold… … Wikipedia
Bracket (mathematics) — In mathematics, various typographical forms of brackets are frequently used in mathematical notation such as parentheses ( ), square brackets [ ] , curly brackets { }, and angle brackets < >. In the typical use, a mathematical expression is… … Wikipedia
bracket — brack|et1 [ˈbrækıt] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: braguette codpiece , from brague trousers , from Latin braca; because of the way a bracket (3) sticks out] 1.) [usually plural] also round bracket BrE one of the pair of signs put around… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Bracket (architecture) — A bracket is an architectural member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall to support or carry weight. It may also support a statue, the spring of an arch, a beam, or a shelf. Brackets are often in the form of scrolls, and can be… … Wikipedia
bracket — 1 noun (C) 1 (usually plural) a) BrE also round bracket one of the pair of signs () put around words to show that the rest of the writing can be read and understood without these words; parenthesis AmE: in brackets: Last year s sales figures are… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Dirac bracket — The Dirac bracket is a generalization of the Poisson bracket developed by Paul Dirac to correctly treat systems with second class constraints in Hamiltonian mechanics and canonical quantization. It is an important part of Dirac s development of… … Wikipedia
Toda bracket — In mathematics, the Toda bracket is an operation on homotopy classes of maps, in particular on homotopy groups of spheres, named after Hiroshi Toda who defined them and used them to compute homotopy groups of spheres in… … Wikipedia
Up the Bracket (song) — Infobox Single Name = Up the Bracket Artist = The Libertines from Album = Up The Bracket Released = September 30, 2002 Format = CD, 7 Genre = Post punk revival Length = 2:38 Label = Rough Trade Records Producer = Mick Jones Last single = What a… … Wikipedia
The Bracket — Infobox Television episode Title = The Bracket Series = How I Met Your Mother Caption = Season = 3 Episode = 14 Airdate = March 31, 2008 Writer = Joe Kelly Director = Pamela Fryman Photographer = Guests = Ken Barnett (Colton Dunn), Brendan… … Wikipedia