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# hyphenation

«hyphenation» in Mova's school dictionary: **The use of a short line (a hyphen, -) to split or join…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

The use of a short line (a hyphen, -) to split or join words, such as at the end of a line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hyphenation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in books, the rules for dividing words with a hyphen, as in «well-known»

### examples

- The hyphen shows hyphenation at the end of the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hyphenation/#x1)
- The editor checked the hyphenation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hyphenation/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hyphenation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hyphenation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.