Bracket (disambiguation)

A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text.

Bracket may also refer to:

Architecture and engineering

 * Bracket (architecture), an architectural element, a structural or decorative member
 * Corbel or decorative bracket, used in furniture and mantelpieces
 * Bracket, a general term for an object used for support
 * Automotive bracket, various brackets used in List of auto parts
 * Angle bracket, a type of fastener to join two parts
 * Bottom bracket, in bicycles
 * Blade bracket, in ceiling fans
 * Bracket, a component of dental braces

Entertainment

 * Bracket (band), a pop punk band
 * "The Bracket", an episode of television series How I Met Your Mother
 *  (film), a 2003 film directed by Morgan Fisher
 *  (album), an album by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós
 * Bracket (music group), a Nigerian afropop music group

Mathematics and science

 * Bracket fungus, fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota
 * Bracket (mathematics), symbols used to specify the order of operations
 * Curly-bracket languages, in programming
 * Lie bracket of vector fields, multiple meanings
 * Poisson bracket, an operator used in mathematics and physics
 * Bra–ket notation, a notation for describing quantum states in the theory of quantum mechanics
 * Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket, an extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields
 * Moyal bracket, in physics
 * Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket or algebraic bracket
 * Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket, in differential geometry

Other uses

 * Brackets (text editor), an open-source HTML editor
 * Bracket, in typeface anatomy, the curve connecting a serif to the main stroke
 * Bracket (tournament), a diagrammatic representation of the series of games played during a tournament
 * Bracket turn, a figure skating move