ALL meanings of parenthesis
pa·ren·the·sis
P p - noun parenthesis punctuation: round bracket 1
- noun parenthesis text in round brackets 1
- noun parenthesis digression 1
- noun parenthesis long interval 1
- noun plural parenthesis either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc. 1
- noun plural parenthesis Usually, parentheses. the material contained within these marks. 1
- noun plural parenthesis Grammar. a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight. 1
- noun plural parenthesis an interval. 1
- countable noun parenthesis Parentheses are a pair of curved marks that you put around words or numbers to indicate that they are additional, separate, or less important. (This sentence is in parentheses.) 0
- countable noun parenthesis A parenthesis is a remark that is made in the middle of a piece of speech or writing, and which gives a little more information about the subject being discussed. 0
- noun parenthesis a phrase, often explanatory or qualifying, inserted into a passage with which it is not grammatically connected, and marked off by brackets, dashes, etc 0
- noun parenthesis either of a pair of characters, (), used to enclose such a phrase or as a sign of aggregation in mathematical or logical expressions 0
- noun parenthesis an intervening occurrence; interlude; interval 0
- noun parenthesis an additional word, clause, etc. placed as an explanation or comment within an already complete sentence: in writing or printing it is usually marked off by curved lines, dashes, or commas 0
- noun parenthesis either or both of the curved lines, ( ), used to mark off parenthetical words, etc. or to enclose mathematical or logical symbols that are to be treated as a single term 0
- noun parenthesis an episode or incident, often an irrelevant one; interlude 0