parenthesis
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈɹɛnθəsɪs/
parenthesis
- 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).
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
- There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative... it is a slender stroke leaning forward, betokening a little short rest, without any perfectness yet of sentence.
- 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation ↗, p. 9 ↗:
- Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
- 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
- (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
- 2009, Up in the air:
- Ryan Bingham: I thought I was a part of your life. Alex Goran: I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis. Ryan Bingham: I'm a parenthesis?
- 2009, Up in the air:
- (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.
- (clause, phrase or word) parenthetical expression
- (brackets) round bracket; parenthesis-point (obsolete)
- paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket")
- See also Thesaurus:bracket
- French: parenthèse
- German: Parenthese
- Portuguese: parêntese
- Russian: вво́дное сло́во
- French: parenthèse
- Portuguese: parêntese
- Russian: отступле́ние
- French: parenthèse
- German: runde Klammer, Klammer, Parenthese
- Italian: parentesi
- Portuguese: parêntese
- Russian: ско́бка
- Spanish: paréntesis
- French: parenthèses
- German: runde Klammer
- Portuguese: parênteses
- Russian: ско́бки
- French: parenthèses
- German: runde Klammer
- Spanish: paréntesis
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