Bracketing may refer to:
Social sciences
Bracketing, a term in behavioral economics 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 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