The word 'parenthesis' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use 'parenthesis' when you want to add additional information to a sentence that is not essential to the main point of the sentence. For example, 'I love going to the beach on summer days (especially if the weather is nice).'.
A pair of dashes are an alternative to commas or brackets for parenthesis when you want to draw the reader's attention to something surprising or unusual.
Ashima, who is an Indian émigré, compares the experience of foreignness to that of "a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that the previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding .Beware, then: however well you carry it off, however much you enjoy it, there is a dangerous undertow to being a foreigner, even a genteel foreigner.
The 44 years that followed were, in a sense, an "interim age: a post-war parenthesis, the unfinished business of a conflict that ended in 1945 but whose epilogue had lasted for another half century".If the first world war destroyed old Europe, the second, Mr Judt believes, created the conditions for a new, non-ideological Europe.
But there is another distinction which I must make in parenthesis here.
Now India finds itself in the same Western intellectual parenthesis as China itself: both fast-growing economies, both hugely populous and both a threat and an opportunity to the rest of the world.For publishers, India's emergence has become something of an emerging market in its own right.
Germany, Greece, Finland, Poland and Armenia are among those which in different ways grant their "kin" abroad shortcuts to citizenship.If the argument erected by the authors has a systemic flaw, it is the extent to which their defence of Israeli democracy puts the question of the occupied territories in a sort of parenthesis.
Within days, the colon-hyphen-parenthesis symbol had spread across the Mellon Carnegie campus; within a month, it had established a beachhead at Stanford University, having hitched a ride in an email.
Step inside and the paean to the Seventies is far more stylish than the daunting, parenthesis-shaped exterior indicates.
Łukasiewicz invented a parenthesis-free logical notation.
The parenthesis-free symbolism was closely associated with some ideas of Polish logicians concerning the good properties of formal systems.
(In Łukasiewicz's parenthesis-free notation Cpq is written for 'If p then q'.) Łukasiewicz's own Aristotle's Syllogistic and Tarski's Introduction to Logic soon followed.
