Meaning & use
Parens
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An informal short term for parentheses, the punctuation marks '(' and ')' used to set off extra information in text.
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Just put the citation in parens after the quote.
The formula uses parens to group the numbers before multiplying.
A note on using this word
Common shorthand among writers, editors, and programmers; rarely used in formal prose.
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parenthesesbrackets
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