bra /bɹɑː/ noun2 •a thing women wear under their clothes, with two cups that hold the breasts in placeHer housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing. — 1968 •One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket. formsbras