Associations to the word «Parenthesis»

PARENTHESIS, 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.

PARENTHESIS, noun. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).

PARENTHESIS, noun. (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.

PARENTHESIS, noun. (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.

PARENTHESIS, noun. Either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material.

PARENTHESIS, noun. A message that departs from the main subject.