HYPHEN

Hyphen

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation'. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer.

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hyphen

Noun

  1. Symbol "-", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
  2. Something that links two more consequential things.

Verb

  1. To separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.


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