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Parenthesis vs Separation - What's the difference?

parenthesis | separation |

As nouns the difference between parenthesis and separation

is that parenthesis is 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 while separation is separation.

parenthesis

English

Noun

(parentheses)
  • 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.
  • Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  • (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
  • * 2009 , :
  • Ryan Bingham'': I thought I was a part of your life. ''Alex Goran'': I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis . ''Ryan Bingham : I'm a parenthesis?
  • (mathematics, logic) 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.
  • Synonyms

    * parenthetical expression * (brackets) round bracket * paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket") * See also

    Derived terms

    * parenthetic * parenthetic, parenthetical * parenthesise, parenthesize

    separation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
  • The place at which a division occurs.
  • An interval, gap or space that separates things.
  • (legal) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
  • (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
  • Antonyms

    * (act of disuniting two or more things) annexation, combination, unification

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