What does hyphenation mean?
The act of dividing a word into syllables by inserting hyphens, or the pattern of syllable division in a word. The process of breaking a word into parts with hyphens to indicate syllable division.
Example
"The typesetter carefully applied hyphenation to the long word to make it fit on the page."
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