round brackets
Punctuation for asides
Round brackets are parentheses—the curved punctuation marks ( ) used to enclose supplementary information within a sentence.
The term is more common in British English; Americans typically say parentheses.
The results (see Table 3) confirm our hypothesis.
- punctuationWritten clarity symbols
- parenthesesCurved enclosing punctuation marks
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
- asideBrief theatrical digression
- side noteIncidental remark
enclosure · digression · delimiters · addition · clarification · interjection · arguments · parameters · functions · nested · syntax · parsing · interpolation · detailing · explanation · elucidation · specification · operators
- bracketsparentheses, parenthesis, curly braces, curly brace, chevrons
bracket shape/type
round bracketssquare brackets
Punctuation enclosing insertions
angle brackets · curly brackets · braces · chevrons · curly braces
round, bracket, rounds, brackets, rounded, rounding, rounder, roundest, roundly