0 a remark that is added to a sentence, often to provide an explanation or extra information, that is separated from the main part of the sentence by commas, brackets, or dashes: --
1 either of a pair of marks ( ), or the information inside them, used in a piece of writing to show that what is inside these marks should be considered as separate from the main part: --
T-statistics for d j = 0 are given in parentheses.
Proportions of births in each village, for each religious group, given in parentheses.
The number of patients with normal chromosomes are listed in parentheses.
Values in the parentheses indicate percent values relative to the control.
If we allow parentheses to indicate optionality, then optionality can be captured in a single grammar.
The recorded ranges of continuous variables across 'treated' and 'untreated' fields are given in parentheses.
Values in parentheses below each estimate are the standard errors.
Values in parentheses are s. e. of the mean (based on four replicates).
