English-French translations for parenthesis

• parenthèse
  Je voudrais, pour conclure, ouvrir une petite parenthèse. To conclude this theme, I should like to open a short parenthesis.
  Entre parenthèses, j'ajouterai que cela se passait bien avant la crise de l'ESB. In parenthesis I would add that this was long before the BSE crisis occurred.
  Permettez-moi d'ouvrir une parenthèse ici simplement pour dire que le projet ITER revêt une importance primordiale. Let me open a parenthesis here just to say that the ITER project has been of paramount importance.
• parenthèses
  Entre parenthèses, j'ajouterai que cela se passait bien avant la crise de l'ESB. In parenthesis I would add that this was long before the BSE crisis occurred.
• incise

Definition of parenthesis

• A clause, phrase or word which is inserted into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes
• A digression; the use of such digressions
• 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

Related words

• parenthetical
• parenthetic
• parenthetically
• parenthesize
• parenthesis|parentheses
• parenthetical referencing
• parenthetic clause