Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves.

(taxation) The move towards increased taxation when an inflation adjustment to a wage or salary pushes a taxpayer into a higher tax bracket (or, in a progressive taxation regime, further into a bracket).

(computing) Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.

The symbol ")". / The right square bracket, "]".

(Commonwealth of Nations) A left or open parenthesis ⟨(⟩. / (US) A left or open square bracket ⟨[⟩.

Either of the two characters { and }, i.e., left curly bracket { and right curly bracket }, with the shape of a curved, pointed line, having various uses in math, music, computer programming and chemistry.

(mycology) A polypore mushroom that grows almost exclusively on birch trees, Piptoporus betulinus.

(British) Each of the signs ( and ); parenthesis, bracket (in a strict sense).

A range over which a piecewise linear, generally progressive, tax is linear.

(mathematics) A notation that denotes a number that is 1 if the condition in square brackets is satisfied, and 0 otherwise, i.e. (where P is a true or false statement)