parentheses

Noun

The word is derived from parenthesis

Meaning

of Parenthesis

Source: Webster's dictionary

aside comma bracket parenthesis tilde digression excursus parenthetical divagation

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. Alan Perlis

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D. H. Lawrence

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. Steven Wright

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses. Daniel Handler

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. John Irving

Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses. Larry Wall