parentheses
n. plural-onlyn. a pair of curved marks ( ) used in writing. You use them to separate extra information or a side comment from the rest of the sentence.
n. a pair of curved punctuation marks used to enclose incidental information or a qualifying remark. Often used to separate non-essential clauses from the main syntactic structure.
The date of the event is in parentheses.
The author included the original Greek term in parentheses after the English translation to help academic readers.
While commas can set off minor asides, parentheses are more effective for enclosing technical data or citations that might otherwise disrupt the narrative flow of the paragraph.
By surface analysis, par- + en- + theses.
Plural form of 'parenthesis'; takes a plural verb. The marks are almost always used in pairs.
The information are in a parenthesesThe information is in parenthesesParentheses is the plural form; the singular is parenthesis. Learners often use the plural form with a singular article.