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Home Dictionary Name: bracketBracket
To place within brackets to connect by brackets to furnish with brackets...
Bracketing
A series or group of brackets brackets collectively...
zero bracket amount
zero bracket amount : a deduction from gross income that was permitted for federal taxpayers and reflected in tax tables until its replacement by the standard deduction in 1986 ...
trust
trust 1 a : a fiduciary relationship in which one party holds legal title to another's property for the benefit of a party who holds equitable title to the property b : an entity resulting from the establishment of such a relationship see also beneficiary, cestui que trust, corpus declaration of trust at declaration, principal, settlor NOTE: Trusts developed out of the old English use. The traditional requirements of a trust are a named beneficiary and trustee (who may be the settlor), an identified res, or property, to be transferred to the trustee and constitute the principal of the trust, and delivery of the res to the trustee with the intent to create a trust. Not all relationships labeled as trusts have all of these characteristics, however. Trusts are often created for their advantageous tax treatment. accumulation trust : a trust in which principal and income are allowed to accumulate rather than being paid out NOTE: Accumulation trusts are disfavored and often restricted...
ZBA
ZBA zero bracket amount ...
Balcony
A platform projecting from the wall of a building usually resting on brackets or consoles and inclosed by a parapet as a balcony in front of a window Also a projecting gallery in places of amusement as the balcony in a theater...
Basidiomycota
A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium It embraces those fungi best known to the public such as mushrooms toadstools etc Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are Gasteromycetes puffballs Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales smuts and Uredinales rusts and Hymenomycetes mushrooms toadstools agarics bracket fungi...
Cantalever
A bracket to support a balcony a cornice or the like...
Corbel
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object or receiving the spring of an arch Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture...
Modillion
The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature and sometimes less ornamented in the Ionic and other orders so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances...
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