parenthesis

• adjournment
• apostrophe
• aside
• bumper
• caesura
• comma
• deflection
• departure
• detour
• deviation
• difference
• discontinuance
• discontinuity
• discursion
• divagation
• divergence
• divergency
• diversion
• drifting
• episode
• excursion
• excursus
• footnote
• gap
• hiatus
• hiccough
• hiccup
• incident
• interim
• interlude
• intermission
• interregnum
• interruption
• interspace
• interstice
• interval
• irrelevancy
• lag
• lapse
• lull
• note
• obiter dictum
• pause
• rambling
• recess
• respite
• rest
• space
• subinterval
• suspension
• tangent
• time lag
• variation
• wandering
• window

• accord
• agreement
• conformity
• continuation
• continuity
• continuum
• procession
• progression
• run
• sameness
• similarity
• stretch
• uniformity

• noun
  1. 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.
  2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  3. A digression; the use of such digressions.
  4. Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

• He added a parenthesis to clarify his point.
• A single parenthesis was left open in the equation.
• The definition was enclosed in a parenthesis for extra detail.
• She used a parenthesis to insert additional information.
• The missing parenthesis caused an error in the program.

caesura

idyll

gap

rambling

tangent

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