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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

Meaning of "hyphenation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPHENATION

hyphenation  [ˌhaɪfənˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPHENATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hyphenation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPHENATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hyphenation

Hyphenation may refer to: ▪ Hyphen, a punctuation mark ▪ Syllabification, the splitting of words in smaller units ▪ Hyphenation algorithm, an algorithm doing automatic syllabification ▪ Hyphenation, the coupling of analytical separation and detection technologies, e.g. Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry.

Definition of hyphenation in the English dictionary

The definition of hyphenation in the dictionary is the use of hyphens to connect words or syllables or else the division of words onto separate lines using hyphens.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPHENATION


affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
Asian
ˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
bromination
ˌbrəʊmɪnˈeɪʃən
connation
kɒnˈeɪʃən
creation
kriːˈeɪʃən
Croatian
krəʊˈeɪʃən
deoxygenation
diːˌɒksɪdʒɪnˈeɪʃən
deviation
ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən
evaluation
ɪˌvæljʊˈeɪʃən
graduation
ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
nunnation
nʌnˈeɪʃən
Pan-Asian
ˈpænˈeɪʃən
personation
ˌpɜːsənˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
situation
ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən
variation
ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPHENATION

hypesthesic
hypethral
hypha
hyphae
hyphal
hyphemia
hyphen
hyphen help
hyphenate
hyphenated
hyphenic
hyphenisation
hyphenism
hyphenization
hyphenless
hyphy
hyping
hypinosis
hypnagogic
hypnagogic image

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPHENATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
excitation
federation
formation
foundation

Synonyms and antonyms of hyphenation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hyphenation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPHENATION

Find out the translation of hyphenation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hyphenation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hyphenation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

断字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la separación de sílabas
570 millions of speakers

English

hyphenation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हायफ़नेशन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الواصلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

переносы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hifenização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাইফেন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

césure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hyphenation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Silbentrennung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハイフネーション
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하이픈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hyphenation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dấu gạch nối
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறுகோடிடல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हायफनेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tire ile ayırma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sillabazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dzielenie wyrazów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

переноси
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

despărțirea în silabe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συλλαβισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

woordafbreking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avstavning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

orddeling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hyphenation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPHENATION»

The term «hyphenation» is regularly used and occupies the 96.980 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of hyphenation
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «hyphenation».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPHENATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hyphenation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hyphenation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hyphenation

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QUOTES WITH «HYPHENATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hyphenation.
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Bharati Mukherjee
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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPHENATION»

Discover the use of hyphenation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hyphenation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Exploring Adobe InDesign CS6
MANAGE HYPHENATION SETTINGS Number oflines letter will drop Drop caps are easy to create. When you are creating them, . remember that the punctuation and spaces count as characters. In this example, the two characters, letterA and ...
Terry Rydberg, 2012
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Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual: The Missing ...
Before clicking OK, be sure to review the following hyphenation settings: • Turning off “Hyphenate words in CAPS,” leaves your acronyms whole; that's probably what you want it to do. • The “Hyphenation zone” is the amount of space allowed ...
Jim Elferdink, 2008
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Office 2007: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual
Still, you should follow these basic rules of thumb: • Use hyphenation with documents that have columns on the page needs hyphenation to avoid large gaps in the text. • Use hyphenation with justified text. Justified text, which is aligned on ...
Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, E. A. Vander Veer, 2007
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Word 2007: The Missing Manual
Without hyphenation, if a word is too long to fit on the line, Word moves it down to the beginning of the next line. If a word is particularly long, it can leave some pretty big gaps at the end of the line. lustified text is aligned on both the left and right ...
Chris Grover, 2007
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InDesign for QuarkXPress Users
The most efficient way to apply multiple H&J settings in a document is to include them in paragraph styles. All of the settings in these two dialog boxes are available when you are creating styles (see Chapter 54). Rgure 48-1 The Hyphenation ...
David Blatner, Christopher Smith, Steve Werner, 2003
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Using QuarkXPress 6
QuarkXPress has an unusual and generally unacceptable hyphenation dictionary. My editor for every book I have typeset in XPress has scribbled "bad break" next to many hyphenated words because the program's hyphenation algorithm ...
Suzanne Sayegh Thomas, 2004
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies
Most designers either use hyphenation as little as possible or avoid it altogether by turning off the Hyphenation feature. Here are a few things you should know about customizing your hyphenation settings if you decide to use this feature: ...
Jennifer Smith, Christopher Smith, Fred Gerantabee, 2010
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Word 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
POWER USERS' CLINIC Manual Hyphenation The term manual hyphenation sounds like more work than it actually is. Com— puter—assisted hyphenation would be a better term. When you turn on manual hyphenation (AIt+P, HM), Word  ...
Chris Grover, 2007
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The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007
If you use manual hyphenation, you can't turn it off and remove hyphens at the click of a button. You must delete each one manually. However, if you later edit the text, causing the lines to break at different words, the manually hyphenated ...
David J. Clark, 2008
10
InDesign CS4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
Controlling. Hyphenation. InDesign lets you turn on hyphenation in the Paragraph panel. Once hyphenation is turned on, you can then control how the hyphenation is applied. To turn on hyphenation: ...
Sandee Cohen, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPHENATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hyphenation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Parents of Woman Shot at Pier Support Strict Immigration Law - ABC …
This story corrects the spelling of the suspect's last name to Lopez-Sanchez. Previous versions had omitted the hyphenation and referred to him ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
2
Kindle Paperwhite 2015: A quick look at the pros and cons
... drop caps at the beginning of chapters, proper spacing between words and also new hyphenation to create paragraphs with consistent lines. «Tech2, Jul 15»
3
A nuclear dream come true
This hyphenation, a British bequest in the wake of the Partition in 1947, robbed India of its rightful role in global affairs. It was not as if the US ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
4
Letters: Don't let political correctness rule day
I don't think the hyphenation is a genealogy lesson. It is also not celebrated that the end of slavery, except in Africa, was accomplished by white ... «The New Orleans Advocate, Jul 15»
5
Name change in marriage cultural tradition
The hyphenation of names tends to confuse some onlookers, leading them to wonder if the children of a woman with a hyphenated name will ... «Flor-Ala, Jul 15»
6
5 Reasons to Merge Last Names When You Marry
Hyphenation is untenable long-term, creating longer and longer last names that quickly become ridiculous. Merging allows names to remain ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Kindle Paperwhite (2015) review: The best value e-reader
This promises enhanced support for hyphenation, justification, kerning and ligatures, as well as drop caps. In books that support the new ... «Alphr, Jul 15»
8
14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From …
Complainant argues that Respondent's domain name is confusingly similar to the G-SUS mark as it merely eliminates the hyphenation and ... «TheDomains.com, Jul 15»
9
Fonts and Nonsense: What Bookerly and Literata Get Wrong
And default justification combined with poor hyphenation dictionaries (I've seen “o'cl-ock” hyphenated just like that recently!) are just two of the ... «Digital Book World, Jul 15»
10
Is Bryant Really a Neighborhood?
And more important, am I the most appropriate person to write this? That's a soft yes and a hard no. But stick with the hyphenation. Ravenna will ... «Seattle Weekly, Jul 15»

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