Parentheses
Meaning of Parentheses
( ) The pair of round brackets ( ); plural of parenthesis.
ما معنى كلمة Parentheses بالعربي؟
علامتا التقويس المُقوستان
( )📝 علامتا التقويس المُقوستان؛ الأقواس المُستخدمة في الكتابة لإضافة معلومات إضافية؛ رمزا التوضيح اللذان يحتويان التفاصيل الجانبية والملاحظات ( )💡
قصة GL: علامات التقويس تُشبه المعلومات الإضافية في التعلم الجيني - الأقواس في الكتابة تنظيمية، رمزا التوضيح مثل الشروحات الإضافية في منصة Organic G Brain التي تُقدم تفاصيل داعمة لفهم أعمق للمفاهيم الأساسية 📚
Synonyms & related words
Parentheses in a sentence
Text in parentheses was binding.
GL Research puts units in parentheses.
Genetic Invent's code uses parentheses.
Genetic G Learning teaches parentheses.
Origin of Parentheses
From Greek parenthesis, insertion.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, parentheses mark extra detail. Use them sparingly.
Parentheses audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Parentheses" — noun, plural, pronounced /pəˈrenθəsiːz/, with the stress on "ren".
Narrator: Parentheses are the pair of curved brackets used to enclose extra information that sits apart from the main sentence.
Narrator: In plain English, they are the round brackets you open and close around a side remark, an aside, or a quick clarification.
Narrator: The word comes from Greek, from para meaning beside, en meaning in, and thesis meaning a placing, so literally something placed in beside the main text.
Narrator: A common collocation is "in parentheses", which describes information tucked inside the brackets rather than stated in the main flow of the sentence.
Narrator: It differs from brackets in the square sense, because square brackets usually mark editorial additions inside a quotation, while parentheses carry the writer's own aside.
Narrator: Another use is "nested parentheses", which describes one bracketed group sitting inside another, a pattern that matters enormously in mathematics and in code.
Narrator: Publishing, law, academic writing, mathematics and software engineering all rely on the word, because grouping and precedence depend on it.
Narrator: So remember: parentheses are the curved brackets that hold a useful aside without interrupting the sentence around them.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why do we have a special word for those little curved brackets?
Speaker B: Because they do a very particular job! PARENTHESES comes from Greek and means something placed in beside, which is exactly what an aside is.
Speaker A: So the word names the punctuation and the remark inside it?
Speaker B: Precisely, yes. The singular parenthesis is one bracket or one inserted remark, and parentheses is the plural.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Put the year of publication in parentheses," meaning enclose it in round brackets. "She added a wry comment in parentheses," meaning she slipped in an aside. "The function call needs closing parentheses," meaning the code is missing its final bracket.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: The commonest error is writing parenthesis when you mean the pair, because the plural is parentheses, spelled with an e before the s, and it is never parenthesises.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Brackets is the everyday cousin, round brackets is the plain British twin, and aside is the handy alternative for the remark itself, though parentheses keeps its tidy, typographical charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "parentheses" in AI prompts — useful for code linting tools and for automated style checking in documentation pipelines.
Speaker A: How would that apply to a codebase?
Speaker B: Start with a linting prompt that hunts for unbalanced brackets.
Prompt: Scan this source file and list every line where parentheses are unbalanced, showing the line number and the expected closing character.
Speaker A: And for written documentation?
Speaker B: Ask the model to tidy overloaded asides.
Prompt: Rewrite this documentation page so that any content in parentheses longer than twelve words becomes a separate sentence, keeping the meaning unchanged.
Speaker A: Could it help with parsing user input?
Speaker B: Yes, use it to specify a small grammar.
Prompt: Write a JavaScript function that evaluates an arithmetic expression string with nested parentheses and returns a clear error message for mismatched brackets.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Let's finish with a search and formatting task for a data export.
Prompt: Extract every value enclosed in parentheses from this CSV column and output them as a clean list with duplicates removed.
Frequently asked questions about Parentheses
What does Parentheses mean?
( ) The pair of round brackets ( ); plural of parenthesis.
ما معنى كلمة Parentheses بالعربي؟
علامتا التقويس المُقوستان — ( )📝 علامتا التقويس المُقوستان؛ الأقواس المُستخدمة في الكتابة لإضافة معلومات إضافية؛ رمزا التوضيح اللذان يحتويان التفاصيل الجانبية والملاحظات ( )💡
How do you pronounce Parentheses?
Parentheses is pronounced /pəˈrenθəsiːz/ and is used as a noun.
How is Parentheses used in a sentence?
Text in parentheses was binding.
What are synonyms of Parentheses?
round brackets, brackets, curved brackets, parens, bracket pair, lunulae.