bracketing

indénombrable

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.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant l'action ou le processus de classer des éléments par catégories, groupes ou plages de valeurs, ou la technique consistant à utiliser des parenthèses dans l'écriture ou la photographie.

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.

   🇫🇷Catégorisation

   Synonymes: 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.

   🇫🇷Mise entre parenthèses

   Synonymes: 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.

   🇫🇷Réduction phénoménologique

• 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.

• 🇫🇷Mettre ou enfermer quelque chose entre parenthèses, ou regrouper/catégoriser des éléments ensemble.

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.

   🇫🇷Mettre entre parenthèses

   Synonymes: 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.

   🇫🇷classer ensemble

   Synonymes: associatecategorizeclassclassifycoupleequategrouplink

   Antonymes: differentiatedistinguishdividesegregateseparate

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

Variantes phrasal: bracket out