bracketing

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A noun referring to the act or process of placing items into categories, groups, or ranges, or the technique of using brackets in writing or photography.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv, das die Handlung oder den Prozess bezeichnet, Gegenstände in Kategorien, Gruppen oder Bereiche einzuordnen, oder die Technik der Verwendung von Klammern beim Schreiben oder in der Fotografie.

1. Grouping or categorizing B2 formal

   The act of placing items or people into groups or categories, often for analysis or comparison.

   • The bracketing of income levels helps in tax analysis.
   • Researchers used bracketing to classify the survey responses.
   • The bracketing of historical periods is often debated by scholars.

   🇩🇪Gruppierung oder Kategorisierung

   Synonyme: assortmentcategorizationclassificationgroupingpigeonholingsorting

2. Mathematical operation B2 formal scientific

   The process of placing numbers or expressions within brackets to indicate the order of operations.

   • Proper bracketing is essential in solving complex equations.
   • The teacher emphasized the importance of bracketing in algebra.
   • Incorrect bracketing can lead to wrong results in calculations.

   🇩🇪Setzen von Klammern

   Synonyme: grouping

3. Philosophical method C1 formal scientific

   A technique in phenomenology where one sets aside assumptions and biases to focus on pure experience.

   • Husserl's method of bracketing is central to phenomenological inquiry.
   • The philosopher practiced bracketing to examine the essence of consciousness.
   • Bracketing allows researchers to suspend judgment about the external world.

   🇩🇪Einklammerung

• bracketings plural form
• bracketings' possessive plural form
• bracketing's possessive singular form

A verb meaning to place or enclose something within brackets, or to group or categorize items together.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das bedeutet, etwas in Klammern zu setzen oder einzuschließen, oder Dinge zu einer Gruppe zusammenzufassen bzw. zu kategorisieren.

1. Enclose in brackets B2 formal

   To put words, numbers, or symbols inside brackets (parentheses) for clarity or grouping.

   • Please bracket the optional items in the list.
   • The editor bracketed the unclear phrase for revision.
   • In the equation, bracket the terms that need to be calculated first.

   🇩🇪In Klammern setzen

   Synonyme: delimitencloseset off

2. Group or classify together B2 formal

   To consider or treat two or more things as belonging to the same group or category.

   • The two authors are often bracketed together as pioneers of the genre.
   • These expenses are bracketed under 'miscellaneous' in the budget.
   • The study brackets participants by age and income level.

   🇩🇪Gruppieren

   Synonyme: associatecategorizeclassclassifycoupleequategrouplink

   Antonyme: differentiatedistinguishdividesegregateseparate

• bracketed past participle
• bracketed past simple
• bracketing present participle
• brackets third person singular

Phrasal-Varianten: bracket out