word break

English

Alternative forms

• wordbreak
• word-break

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.

Related terms

• line break, page break, paragraph break, section break

Translations

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

• Dutch: woordafbreking (nl) f
• French: coupure (fr) f
• German: Worttrennung (de) f
• Hungarian: elválasztás (hu), szóelválasztás

See also

• hyphenation