英语词汇“bracket-creep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词

bracket-creep

释义

bracket /brakˈit/

noun

A projecting support
A small shelf fastened to a wall
A gas pipe projecting from a wall (historical)
Either of a pair of symbols used to enclose words or mathematical symbols, such as round brackets or parentheses, square brackets, and braces
One of the side pieces of a gun-carriage, supporting the trunnions
The space intervening between overestimated and underestimated shots at a target in range-finding (artillery)
A bracketed group
A group or category defined and demarcated by certain limiting parameters, as in income bracket

transitive verb

transitive verb and intransitive verb (artillery)

To find the range

ORIGIN: Fr braguette, from Sp bragueta, from L brāca, sing of brācae breeches

bracket clock noun

A rectangular clock with an internal pendulum designed to stand on a table or wall-bracket

brackˈet-creep noun

An inflationary phenomenon whereby a salary rise makes a taxpayer less well-off by pushing him or her into a higher tax bracket

bracket fungus noun

A fungus that forms shelf-like growths on tree trunks

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