parenthesis
pronunciation
How to pronounce parenthesis in British English:
UK [pəˈrenθəsɪs]
How to pronounce parenthesis in American English:
US [pəˈrɛnθɪsɪs]
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- Noun:
- either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
- a message that departs from the main subject
Word Origin
- parenthesis (n.)
- 1540s, "words, clauses, etc. inserted into a sentence," from Middle French parenthèse (15c.), from Late Latin parenthesis "addition of a letter to a syllable in a word," from Greek parenthesis, literally "a putting in beside," from parentithenai "put in beside," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + en- "in" + tithenai "put, place" (see theme). Sense extension by 1715 from the inserted words to the curved brackets that indicate the words inserted. A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
Example
- 1. Controlling measurements shown in parenthesis are in millimeters .
- 2. A bracket that looks like a parenthesis surrounds the two rows .
- 3. For expressions may be defined with parenthesis or curly braces , but using curly braces means you don 't have to separate your filters with semicolons .
- 4. Add a comma and continue the type parameter list , or add a closing parenthesis character to terminate the list .
- 5. When the return type of a method is inferred and you don 't use an equals sign before the opening parenthesis for the method body , scala infers a unit return type , even when the last expression in the method is a value of another type .