bracketing
- noun
- /ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/
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agrupamiento
- The tournament's bracketing system helps to organize teams based on their performance ratings.
Hence the phrase task bracketing it brackets the habit.
- Hence the phrase task bracketing it brackets the habit.
Examples
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Bracketing.
Academic text (2014) -
The researchers used bracketing to group similar data points together for better analysis.
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Why is he putting this existential bracketing in here?
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Think back to task bracketing, think back to limbic friction.
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Ultimately, it is taken for granted that the West stands for free development, but more immediately, the Cold War, together with the alien needs and traditions of "undeveloped" areas, involves the bracketing of certain standards of judgment.
Academic text (1995) -
This bracketing allows consideration of the transition period preceding the 1943 coup d'état that gave rise to Peronism.
Academic text (1998) -
In academic writing, bracketing allows for a clearer comparison of different theories.
Synonyms
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2.0
A way of arranging things into groups by shared features
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2.5
Putting people and things together because they are similar or have the same purpose
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3.7
The process of putting things into groups by shared features
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4.4
Putting things, people, or ideas into groups because they are similar
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7.4
Putting people or things into small, simple groups that limit them
Putting things next to each other to compare them
How Inclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bracketing comes from the idea of a small support or the punctuation mark bracket [ ] that 'holds' things together. Think of those marks 'holding' similar items, so bracketing means grouping things for comparison or study.