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2. Verb. (third-person singular of bracket) ¹

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Definition of Brackets

1. bracket [v] - See also: bracket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brackets

Literary usage of Brackets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1908)
"The total length of the beam, including the brackets, is distance between the fascia girders; in the present case, distance is 42 feet 6 inches, ..."

2. A Manual of Composition and Rhetoric: A Text-book for Schools and Colleges by John Seely Hart (1878)
"brackets. brackets are used to inclose in a sentence a word, or words, ... brackets are somewhat like the marks of parenthesis in form, one, however, ..."

3. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"Page 1, line 6, after " members " insert a semicolon enclosed with brackets. Page 1, line 1, after " officers" and before the period insert a semicolon ..."

4. Modern Punctuation: Its Utilities and Conventions by George Summey (1919)
"brackets In ordinary text brackets are almost invariably editorial points, ... The use of brackets to enclose secondary parenthesis within curves is rare ..."

5. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"brackets.—A projecting member whose moment is balanced by being ... 420 illustrates three types of brackets: (a) is a beam section rigidly attached to the ..."

6. The Electrical Review (1878)
"On the completion of the communications the telephones are returned to their brackets, and the bells become again put in circuit. above all other ..."

7. The Architects' and Builders' Pocket-book: A Handbook for Architects by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Cast-iron Columns with Bearing-brackets that may be applied through a beam. ... Tests of Cast-iron brackets. brackets of cast-iron columns tested 1 New York ..."

8. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics by Forest Ray Moulton (1914)
"It follows at once from the definitions of Lagrange's brackets that (34) ([ai, ai] = O, l[a<, a,-] = - [«y, aj. A more important property is that they do ..."

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