parenthesis
nounEtymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek παρένθεσις (parénthesis, “insertion”). By surface analysis, par- + en- + thesis.
- derived from παρένθεσις
- learned borrowing from parenthesis
Definitions
A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification)…
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.
- How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!
Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to…
Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
A digression
A digression; the use of such digressions.
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Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common…
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 neighborhood
- synonymparen
- neighborparenthesis-point
- neighborparenthetic
- neighborparenthetical
- neighborparenthesise
- neighborparenthesize
- neighbortriple parentheses
- neighborparentheme
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for parenthesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA