noun
- a parenthesis; either of the curved brackets ( ) used to enclose text or set off information
Usage: informal; often used in plural form 'parens'
Examples
- The code won't compile if you forget a closing paren.
- Make sure to balance your parens when writing mathematical expressions.
- She added a note in parens to clarify the point.
- The function call requires the arguments to be inside parens.
- I noticed you left out a paren at the end of that sentence.