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<p>New page: noun, plural parentheses puh-ren-thuh-seez 1. either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupi...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>noun, plural parentheses puh-ren-thuh-seez<br /> <br /> 1. either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.<br /> <br /> 2. Usually, parentheses. the material contained within these marks.<br /> <br /> 3. Grammar. a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.<br /> <br /> 4. an interval.<br /> <br /> 1560-70; &lt; Late Latin &lt; Greek parénthesis a putting in beside. See par-, en-2, thesis</div>

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