bracket

A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.

Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.

To determine if your frame has this bottom bracket type, look for a notched and possibly knurled lockring on the left side (the side without the chainrings).

Not only does the attachment on the tooth surface (called a bracket) allow the tooth to be moved vertically or tilted, but also a force couple can be generated by the interaction between the bracket and an archwire running through the bracket.

A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.

Any of the characters “(”, “)”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “⟨”, “⟩”, “”, or the like, used in pairs to enclose parenthetic remarks, sections of mathematical expressions, etc.

To support by means of mechanical brackets.

To enclose in typographical brackets.

To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.

To place in the same category.

Because they didn’t have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year-olds with the eight-year-olds.

Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of honest mediums get discounted. The public very naturally brackets them all together.

To mark distinctly for special treatment.

Next, since so much social activity is defined by being bracketed out of the world of ongoing events, it becomes possible that outside such bracketed episodes, […] people are — especially beforehand, but also afterwards — to some extent "out of role", and so off their guard.

Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”).