(engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
2005, Todd Downs,The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair for Road and Mountain bikes,→ISBN:
To determine if your frame has this bottombracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).
2013, Laura Mitchell,An Introduction to Orthodontics,→ISBN, page220:
Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called abracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between thebracket and an archwire running through thebracket.
Any of thecharacters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “<”, “>”, or the like, used in pairs to encloseparenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.
(UK) “(” and “)” specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
(US) “[” and “]” specifically, as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
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Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturallybrackets them all together.
Next, since so much social activity is defined by beingbracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside suchbracketed episodes,[…] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.
(photography) To takemultiple images of the same subject, using a range ofexposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
(philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system ofEdmund Husserl and his followers, to set asidemetaphysical theories andexistential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on theactualcontent of experience.
