Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bracketing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables
brack-et-ing
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of bracket

noun

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

noun

The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.

noun

A technique used to display the internal structure of a string of elements, in a similar manner to that used in mathematics and symbolic logic.

Inflected Forms

bracketings (plural)

Derived Forms

autobracketing rebracketing

Questions

What does bracketing mean?
present participle and gerund of bracket

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