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Word: parenthesis (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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