AAARG!!! mental block, what is this character called: ')'

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).