parenthesis

Meaning of parenthesis

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 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.

Information about parenthesis

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of parenthesis

paren-the-sis

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • parenthesis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

parenthesis synonyms

Meaning digression:

digression, aside, excursus, divagation

Anagrams of parenthesis

interphases

Words that rhyme with parenthesis

ascesis, ecesis, phacometecesis, allosyndesis, arthrodesis, asyndesis, autosyndesis, capsulodesis, diapedesis, fasciodesis, iridesis, iridodesis, leukopedesis, metasyndesis, parapedesis, parasyndesis, pedesis, pleurodesis, spondylosyndesis, syndesis, syneidesis, tenodesis, trichomadesis, Parcheesis, deesis, parcheesis, algesis, analgesis, diegesis, eisegesis, energesis, epexegesis, exegesis, exomologesis, hyperalgesis, periegesis, Ecthesis, Lachesis, algesthesis, amylosynthesis, anesthesis, anterolisthesis, anthesis, antimetathesis, antithesis, aphesis, apothesis, apselaphesis, autoprothesis, bioprosthesis

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