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bracketology

Most directly put, the study of how to put a bracket together. Popularized by the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, bracketology is the system by which sports analysts and the NCAA committee decide, by a series of statistics such as RPI, win-loss ratio, final AP Ranking, and auto-bids decided by the outcome of a teams regional end-of-season tournament, what 65 teams (including the play-in game for the two least-qualified team) will play for the chance to win the NCAA Div. 1 Men's Basketball title. Teams are separated into four regions with 16 teams placed in each region. Each region contains teams with seeds #1-#16 and tournament play commences in early-mid March, hence the dubbed tournament name, March Madness.
Bracketology is not limited to the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, but that is the most common usage of the term when referred to in sports.
After brackets are set up by way of bracketology, the 65 team tournament field, a team must put together a series of six wins against some of the best teams in the country in order to win the prestigious NCAA Title.
by Scotty V June 11, 2008
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classic bracket problem

Phrase used by Mr.Schlabra during the 2003 class of Computer Science.

Referred to the java programming when an error came up during debug.
*Computer blows up*

Mr.Schlabra: Classic bracket problem!
by larstait October 27, 2003
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Jelly Braclets

all that Jelly Braclets r at my skool is a way to TRY and get booty from grls! it doesnt really work but we still play n e wayz and we only do easy things!
Hott Guy:*excited voice* oh look i broke ur jelly braclets!!!!
Chick:*sarcastic* oh cool u broke the ORANGE braclet!
Hott Guy:*confused and willing* wut does that mean????
Chick: all we have to do is kiss u perv!
by cw_hottie December 28, 2005
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bracketise

to be used when something needs to be put into brackets. usually in the most boring of maths lessons and occasionally occurs elsewhere. for use in the past tense, 'bracketsised'
- so how do you figure this maths question out?
- you just bracketise it.
by JimberleyCotton May 1, 2009
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square bracket

ASCII 91 and 93 (and hence U+005B and U+005D). Used in matching pairs to denote stage directions in a play or additions to a quotation. In programming languages with C-like syntax, square brackets typically enclose array subscripts. In mathematics, their most frequent use is to denote closed intervals of real numbers. On Urban Dictionary, because they're used for markup and there are no escape sequences, opening square brackets can never appear in the text of a definition.
The standard QWERTY keyboard makes square brackets easier to type than parentheses, which is pretty silly considering how much more common parentheses are.
by Subsequence February 16, 2010
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baracketship

(n.)A person or situation that intends the greatest good, but is doomed to utter failure.
Our relationship was ok at first, but now im starting to think its a real baracketship.
by Davriel Schultz January 23, 2009
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Snack Bracket

Pertaining to the dating rule of "Half your age plus seven" to denote potential mates of a socially acceptable age. Those within an acceptable age range for engaging in an intimate relationship with.
Mary: Check out those hot guys outside of the University Centre...

Janine: No way man. Those guys are in first year. Completely out of your snack bracket.
by Valstar June 19, 2010
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