Bracketing (disambiguation)

Bracketing may refer to:

Social sciences

• Bracketing, a term in behavioral economics ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Bracketing in pharmaceutical validation is an approach in which the validation of extreme values of the tested samples is used to represent the validation of the whole gamut of values ^[1]
• Bracketing (linguistics), a term in morphological analysis
  • Rebracketing, breaking a word into constituent parts inconsistent with its original etymology
• Center-squeeze, a situation in instant-runoff voting and plurality voting where a moderate candidate is defeated as a result of being "bracketed" by extremists

Humanities, arts, and literature

• Bracketing, a photographic technique
  • Autobracketing, a camera feature for taking multiple shots with different settings
• Bracketing (phenomenology), a method used by phenomenological sociologists
• Inclusio, a literary device

Other

• Bracketing, a method for determining range by firing artillery shells both beyond and short of a target (the term "straddling" is also used instead)
• Bracketing, the process of ordering multiple sizes of clothing online and then returning ones that don't fit^{[ citation needed ]}

1. Research, Center for Drug Evaluation and (2020-05-15). "Q1D Bracketing and Matrixing Designs for Stability Testing of New Drug Substances and Products". www.fda.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-28.