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  2. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    A hyphenation algorithm is a set of rules, especially one codified for implementation in a computer program, that decides at which points a word can be broken over two lines with a hyphen. For example, a hyphenation algorithm might decide that impeachment can be broken as impeach-ment or im-peachment but not impe-achment .

  3. English compound - Wikipedia

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    Compound modifiers that are not hyphenated in the relevant dictionary [10] [11] [13] or that are unambiguous without a hyphen. [12] Where there is no risk of ambiguity: "a Sunday morning walk" Left-hand components of a compound modifier that end in -ly and that modify right-hand components that are past participles (ending in -ed):

  4. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  5. Time limit - Wikipedia

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    A time limit or deadline is a narrow field of time, or a particular point in time, by which an objective or task must be accomplished. Once that time has passed, the item may be considered overdue (e.g., for work projects or school assignments). In the case of work assignments or projects that are not completed by the deadline, this may ...

  6. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. [1] The oldest known examples of punctuation marks were found in the Mesha Stele from the 9th century BC, consisting of points between the words and horizontal strokes between sections.

  7. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    The time 00:00 refers to midnight at the start of a date, 12:00 to noon, and 24:00 to midnight at the end of a date, but 24 should not be used for the first hour of the next day (e.g. use 00:10 for ten minutes after midnight, not 24:10).

  9. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, a dictionary broke this record with a 1909-letter word describing the trpA protein 3] John Horton Conway and Landon Curt Noll developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one sexmillia­quingen­sexagin­tillion, coming from the Latin name for 6560, is the name for 10 3(6560+1) = 10 19683.