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Parenthesis
Parenthesis meaning
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. | Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text). | A digression; the use of such digressions.
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Example sentences (20)
When you write lengthy mathematical expressions using parentheses, it’s always clear which “open” parenthesis corresponds to which “close” parenthesis.
As with awards, if the name of the organization isn't commonly recognized, take the time to explain it in parenthesis as long as it fits within the permitted 100 characters.
The rankings include overall records, total points and first-place votes in parenthesis.
Despite the changes, Metro says each line will keep the color it started with and updated signage will show each letter designation with the color in parenthesis, to help riders keep it all straight.
Teams are listed with first place votes in parenthesis, final 2019 record, points and final 2019 poll ranking.
The Associated Press Top 10 polls with record, points, previous ranking and first-place votes in parenthesis.
The left-parenthesis is sometimes used as a substitute for the letter c because of their similar shapes, and to bypass some profanity filters.
An extract from In Parenthesis read by Jones himself in 1967 appears on the audiobook CD Artists Rifles.
Another example is the word ( (paren) which reads and ignores the following words up to and including the next right parenthesis and is used to place comments in a colon definition.
A quoted string can typically contain anything but a quote, while an unquoted identifier atom can typically contain anything but quote, whitespace characters, parenthesis, brackets, braces, backslash, and semicolon.
Each dot (or multiple dot) represents either a left or right parenthesis or the logical symbol ∧.
Examples Well-formed parentheses The canonical example of a context free grammar is parenthesis matching, which is representative of the general case.
First one has to decide based on context whether the dots stand for a left or right parenthesis or a logical symbol.
However the position of the matching right or left parenthesis is not indicated explicitly in the notation but has to be deduced from some rules that are complicated, confusing and sometimes ambiguous.
In addition, it is common to write an argument of a function without parenthesis, which also may lead to ambiguity.
Parentheses have historically been used where the dash is currently used in alternatives, such as "parenthesis)(parentheses".
So beginning at the left and moving to the right, find the first (and in this case, the only) parenthesis, that is, (2 + 2 2 ).
Then one has to decide how far the other corresponding parenthesis is: here one carries on until one meets either a larger number of dots, or the same number of dots next that have equal or greater "force", or the end of the line.
The present day location of each area is given in parenthesis.
These books are read aloud in the synagogue on particular occasions, the occasion listed below in parenthesis.