word break

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Etymology

word + break

Noun

word break (plural word breaks)

  1. (usually) A point in writing where a word is split so that part of it is relegated to the next line, typically at the end of a syllable and marked with a hyphen: an intersyllabic division.
  2. A word boundary, as operationally defined by either linguistics or computing.

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