pa·ren
| \ pəˈren \
plural parens
Definition of paren
: parenthesis sense 3
—usually plural There are four ways of erasing expressions in a logical statement, and one way of moving variables in and out of parens.— Clifford Barney, Electronics, 23 Dec. 1985
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