parenthesis

Etymology
, itself borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2) Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
 * 3)  A digression; the use of such digressions.
 * 4)  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.
 * 1)  A digression; the use of such digressions.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  A digression; the use of such digressions.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Synonyms

 * parenthetical expression
 * (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket")
 * See also Thesaurus:bracket
 * See also Thesaurus:bracket

Translations

 * Armenian: միջանկյալ բառ,
 * Bulgarian: вмъ́кната ду́ма
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: vsuvka
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: παρένθεσις
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: idiraisnéis
 * Latvian: iespraudums
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: eadar-aisneis, eadar-ràdh
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panaklong


 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (plural: أَقْوَاس, قَوْسَانِ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: йәйә
 * Belarusian: ду́жка, ско́бка
 * Bulgarian:, ско́бка
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: krommvagh
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, kiillause
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, მრგვალი ფრჩხილები
 * German: runde Klammer, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סוֹגֵר
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: жақша
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: жая
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: кашаа
 * Lao: ນະຂາລິຂິດ, ວົງເລັບ
 * Latin: unca
 * Latvian: iekavas, apaļās iekavas
 * Lithuanian: skliaustai, skliausteliai
 * Luxembourgish: Klamer
 * Macedonian: заграда
 * Malay: tanda kurung,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: taiepa, taiepa pewa
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: parentes
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, кру́глая ско́бка
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: camag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̑града
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: zátvorka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: қавс, қавсайн
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:, ความแทรก
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: ýaý
 * Ukrainian: ду́жка
 * Urdu: قَوس
 * Uyghur: تىرناق
 * Uzbek:, skobka
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: cromfach
 * Yiddish: קלאַמער


 * Armenian: փակագծեր
 * Bulgarian: кръ́гли ско́би
 * Catalan:
 * Cornish: krommvaghow
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, sulkumerkit,
 * French:
 * Galician: parénteses
 * German: runde Klammer
 * Greek:
 * Irish: lúibíní
 * Latin: uncae
 * Maori: taiepa
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian: փակագծեր
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: haakje (plural haakjes)
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: runde Klammer
 * Greek:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:


 * Esperanto:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: