Round Brace Character

A Round Brace Character is a bracket character that ...

• AKA: Parentheses Bracket.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Left Parentheses to being a Right Parentheses.
• Example(s):
  • ( (
  • ) ).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Square Brace Character.
  • Curly Brace Character.
  • Chevron Character.
• See: Punctuation Mark, Punctuation, Parenthetical Referencing, Parenthetical Girls, Delimiter, Uncertain Plural.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bracket#Parentheses Retrieved:2016-12-7.
  • Parentheses (singular, parenthesis ) (also called simply brackets, or round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens ) contain material that serves to clarify (in the manner of a gloss) or is aside from the main point. A milder effect may be obtained by using a pair of commas as the delimiter, though if the sentence contains commas for other purposes, visual confusion may result. In American usage, parentheses are usually considered separate from other brackets, and calling them "brackets" is unusual. Parentheses may be used in formal writing to add supplementary information, such as "Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) spoke at length". They can also indicate shorthand for “either singular or plural” for nouns, e. g. “the claim(s)". It can also be used for gender neutral language, especially in languages with grammatical gender, e. g. “(s)he agreed with his (her) physician", . Parenthetical phrases have been used extensively in informal writing and stream of consciousness literature. Examples include the southern American author William Faulkner (see Absalom, Absalom! and the Quentin section of The Sound and the Fury) as well as poet E. E. Cummings. Parentheses have historically been used where the dash is currently used in alternatives, such as "parenthesis)(parentheses". Examples of this usage can be seen in editions of Fowler's.

    Parentheses may be nested (generally with one set (such as this) inside another set). This is not commonly used in formal writing (though sometimes other brackets [especially square brackets] will be used for one or more inner set of parentheses [in other words, secondary {or even tertiary} phrases can be found within the main parenthetical sentence]). Any punctuation inside parentheses or other brackets is independent of the rest of the text: "Mrs. Pennyfarthing (What? Yes, that was her name!) was my landlady." In this usage, the explanatory text in the parentheses is a parenthesis. (Parenthesized text is usually short and within a single sentence. Where several sentences of supplemental material are used in parentheses the final full stop would be within the parentheses, or simply omitted. Again, the parenthesis implies that the meaning and flow of the text is supplemental to the rest of the text and the whole would be unchanged were the parenthesized sentences removed.) Parentheses are included in the syntaxes of many computer programming languages. Typically needed to denote an argument; to tell the compiler what data type the Method/Function needs to look for first in order to initialise. In some cases, such as in LISP, parentheses are a fundamental construct of the language.

    Parentheses in mathematics signify a different precedence of operators. For example: 2 + 3 × 4 equals 14, since the multiplication is done before the addition. However, (2 + 3) × 4 equals 20, because the parentheses override normal precedence, causing the addition to be done first. Some authors follow the convention in mathematical equations that, when parentheses have one level of nesting, the inner pair are parentheses and the outer pair are square brackets. Example: : [math]\displaystyle{ [(2+3)\times4]^2=400 }[/math] A related convention is that when parentheses have two levels of nesting, curly brackets (braces) are the outermost pair. Following this convention, when more than three levels of nesting are needed, often a cycle of parentheses, square brackets, and curly brackets will continue. This helps to distinguish between one such level and the next. Parentheses are also used to set apart the arguments in mathematical functions. For example, f(x) is the function f applied to the variable x. In coordinate systems parentheses are used to denote a set of coordinates; so in the Cartesian coordinate system (4, 7) may represent the point located at 4 on the x-axis and 7 on the y-axis. Parentheses may also represent intervals; , for example, is the interval between 0 and 5, not including 0 or 5. Parentheses may also be used to represent a binomial coefficient, and in chemistry to denote a polyatomic ion.

    Since 2014, antisemites have used triple parentheses around the names of people to denote them as Jewish.

    ;Unpaired parenthesis

    Lowercase latin letters used as indexes, rather than bullets or numbers, followed by unpaired parenthesis, are used in ordered lists especially in:

    1. educational testing,
    2. technical writing and diagrams,
    3. market research, and
    4. elections.
  • In more formal usage, “parenthesis” may refer to the entire bracketed text, not just to the punctuation marks used (so all the text in this set of round brackets may be said to be “a parenthesis", "a parenthetical", or "a parenthetical phrase").

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