hyphenation

Noun

Meaning

connecting syllables and words by hyphens

division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page

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Examples

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally. Bharati Mukherjee

Alternative transliterations of the last element include Naaser, Nasir and others, with the whole name subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. Source: Internet

Because early has both adverbial and adjectival senses, its hyphenation can attract attention; some editors, due to comparison with advanced-stage disease and adult-onset disease, like the parallelism of early-stage disease and early-onset disease. Source: Internet

Among other changes, the original hyphenation algorithm was replaced by a new algorithm written by Frank Liang. Source: Internet

Also shows correct hyphenation & verifies if ISBNs are valid or not. Source: Internet

TeX will then look into its list of hyphenation patterns, and find subwords for which it has calculated the desirability of hyphenation at each position. Source: Internet

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