Parenthesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Either or both of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or enclose a sum, product, or other expression considered or treated as a collective entity in a mathematical operation.
  • n. A qualifying or amplifying word, phrase, or sentence inserted within written matter in such a way as to be independent of the surrounding grammatical structure.
  • n. A comment departing from the theme of discourse; a digression.
  • n. An interruption of continuity; an interval: "This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for—the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing” ( Margaret Atwood).
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  • n. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
  • n. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  • n. A digression; the use of such digressions.
  • n. Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
  • n. One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An explanatory or qualifying clause, sentence, or paragraph inserted in another sentence or in the course of a longer passage, without being grammatically connected with it.
  • n. The upright curves ( ) collectively, or either of them separately, used by printers and writers to mark off an interjected explanatory clause or qualifying remark: as, to place a word or clause in parenthesis or within parentheses.
  • n. An interval; a break; an episode.
  • n. Abbreviated par.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
  • n. a message that departs from the main subject
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    punctuation mark    punctuation    content    message    substance   
    Variant
    parentheses   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expression    parenthetical    round bracket   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    comma    interjection    italics    semicolon    adverb   
     
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