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bracketings

bracketings is the plural of bracketing.

Meaning of bracketing

Noun

bracketing (plural bracketings)

  1. A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.
  2. The act of enclosing (text, etc.) in brackets.
  3. 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.

Questions about bracketings

What is bracketings the plural of?
Bracketings is the plural of bracketing.

Words near bracketings in the dictionary

  1. bracket racing
  2. bracketed
  3. bracketer
  4. bracketers
  5. bracketing
  6. bracketings
  7. bracketless
  8. bracketlike
  9. bracketologist
  10. bracketologists
  11. bracketology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bracketings (page history and authors); bracketing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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