parenthesis
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[edit] Etymology
Either indirectly via Middle French parenthese or directly from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parenthesis), from παρεντίθημι (parentithēmi, “I put in beside, mix up”), from παρά (para, “beside”) + ἐν (en, “in”) + τίθημι (tithēmi, “put, place”) (from Proto-Indo-European base *dhe- "to put, to do").
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[edit] Noun
parenthesis (plural parentheses)
- 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.
- Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
- (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
- (mathematics, logic) 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.
[edit] Synonyms
- (clause, phrase or word): parenthetical expression
- (brackets): round bracket
- See also Wikisaurus:bracket
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[edit] Translations
a clause, phrase or word inserted into a passage which is already grammatically complete
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either of a pair of brackets ( )
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both round brackets
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(mathematics, logic) brackets used to clarify expressions by grouping terms affected by a common operator
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