word break
nounEtymology From word + break.
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, hyphenation