Parenthesis
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English
Noun
parenthesis (Plural: parentheses)
- One of a pair of punctuation marks ( "(" and ")" ) used to enclose supplementary or explanatory material in a text; also used in mathematics to enclose a calculation that is to be carried out before an operation outside the parentheses, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
Synonyms
- bracket, round bracket
Translations
- Dutch: haakje (plural haakjes)
- Finnish: sulku (plural sulkeet)
- French: parenthèse f (in parentheses: entre parenthèses)
- Italian: parentesi f (plural: parentesi)
Punctuation
| Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| ' | apostrophe | |
| [ and ] | bracket (US), square bracket (British) | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma | |
| — | dash, em rule | |
| – | en rule | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| - | hyphen | |
| ( and ) | parenthesis, bracket (British) | |
| . | period (US), full stop (British) | |
| ? | question mark | |
| " or ' | quotation mark, quote, inverted commas (British) | |
| ; | semicolon |
