pa‧ren‧the‧sis/pəˈrenθəsəs, pəˈrenθɪsəs/ noun (plural parentheses /-siːz/) [COUNTABLE USUALLY PLURAL] [date : 1500-1600; Language : Late Latin; Origin : Greek, from parentithenai 'to put in'] 1. a round bracket in parentheses ▪ The figures in parentheses refer to page numbers.
2. in parenthesis British English, in parentheses American English if you say something in parenthesis, you say it while you are talking about something else in order to add information or explain something: ▪ In parenthesis, I should add that the results have not yet been proven. ⇨ punctuation mark
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ How can you escape all this without some haversack of a parenthesis about the lady's character? ▪ In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding. ▪ She saw and registered all this in parenthesis. ▪ Some of that evidence, it might be said in parenthesis, appears to be adverse to the appellants. ▪ The single amino acid change from the rat sequence is indicated in the parenthesis. ▪ We must begin with a parenthesis.
pa‧ren‧the‧sis/pəˈrenθəsəs, pəˈrenθɪsəs/ noun (plural parentheses /-siːz/) [COUNTABLE USUALLY PLURAL]