AAARG!!! mental block, what is this character called: ')'
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AAARG!!! mental block, what is this character called: ')'
donald duck
parenthesis
Paranthesis a closing one I guess
silly americans...it's a bracket
Right Paren/Closing Paren
>silly americans...it's a bracket
No, [ ] those are brackets. {} are braces. () are parentheses
-Prelude
) = bracket
. = full stop
oh yeah I guess brian might be right on this one.
] = square bracket
) = bracket
} = squigly bracket
chicken lips! :)
Stupid English! ()=Parenthesis []=brackets {}=braces
>Stupid English! ()=Parenthesis []=brackets {}=braces<
I'm not sure about the English part, but that seems about right, although I prefer the term "chicken lips" for the last one. :)
My dictionary -
Paranthesis
1 additional word, phrase or sentence inserted into a passage which would be complete without it, and usually separated from it by brackets, dashes or commas.
Brackets
2 any one of the marks used in pairs for enclosing words, figures, etc to separate them from what precedes or follows, eg () round brackets, [] square brackets, <> angle brackets, {} braces
The right mark of parenthesis.
pa·ren·the·sis (p-rnth-ss)
n. pl. par·en·the·ses (-sz)
Either or both of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or enclose a sum, product, or other expression considered or treated as a collective entity in a mathematical operation.
A qualifying or amplifying word, phrase, or sentence inserted within written matter in such a way as to be independent of the surrounding grammatical structure.
A comment departing from the theme of discourse; a digression.
An interruption of continuity; an interval: “This is one of the things I wasn't prepared forthe amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing” (Margaret Atwood).