"parenthesis" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parenthesis",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "parentheses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "parenthesis",
        "2": "parentheses"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Billy and Bob wrote their papers (Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs)."
        },
        {
          "text": "*The quote inside the parentheses, \"Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs\", is put inside parentheses because it would be a run-on sentence if there were no parentheses."
        },
        {
          "text": "*You can also use commas as parentheses, but you need to write the sentence differently."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A parenthesis is a symbol that looks like ( or ). A person may see parentheses when reading books. Most of the time, they are not used to tell the main story, but gives the reader extra information so they can understand."
      ],
      "id": "simple-parenthesis-en-noun-5ky4k5N0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈrɛnθəsɪs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-parenthesis.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parenthesis"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parenthesis",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "parentheses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "parenthesis",
        "2": "parentheses"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Billy and Bob wrote their papers (Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs)."
        },
        {
          "text": "*The quote inside the parentheses, \"Billy wrote about karate, and Bob wrote about dogs\", is put inside parentheses because it would be a run-on sentence if there were no parentheses."
        },
        {
          "text": "*You can also use commas as parentheses, but you need to write the sentence differently."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A parenthesis is a symbol that looks like ( or ). A person may see parentheses when reading books. Most of the time, they are not used to tell the main story, but gives the reader extra information so they can understand."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈrɛnθəsɪs/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-parenthesis.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parenthesis"
}