Usually means: Enclosures for clarification in text.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. parentheses: Merriam-Webster
  2. parentheses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parentheses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. parentheses: Vocabulary.com
  5. Parentheses, parentheses: Wordnik
  6. parentheses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. parentheses: Wiktionary
  8. parentheses: Dictionary.com
  9. parentheses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Parentheses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Parentheses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Parentheses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. parentheses: FreeDictionary.org
  14. parentheses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parentheses: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. parentheses: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. parentheses: CCI Computer
  3. parentheses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parentheses: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parenthesis)

noun:  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.
noun:  Either of a pair of brackets, especially (mainly US) round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
noun:  (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
noun:  (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.
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