Hyphenation of eliminations

How to hyphenate eliminations

Because it is a word with a single syllable, eliminations is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

eliminations

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 12
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 12
Hyphens Count: 0

Haphenation done based on the Knuth-Liang word-division algorithm. The computed hyphenation pattern is: eliminations

Definitions of eliminations

eliminations is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
noun
The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
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The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
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The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
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The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
noun
The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
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The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

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What is hyphenation

Hyphenation is the process of splitting words into syllables and inserting hyphens between them to facilitate the reading of a text. It is also used to divide words when the word cannot fit on a line.

This technique is particularly helpful in fully justified texts, where it aids in creating a uniform edge along both sides of a paragraph. Hyphenation rules vary among languages and even among different publications within the same language. It's a critical component in typesetting, significantly influencing the aesthetics and readability of printed and digital media. For instance, in compound adjectives like 'long-term solution', hyphens clarify relationships between words, preventing misinterpretation. Moreover, hyphenation can alter meanings: 'recreation' differs from 're-creation'.

With the advent of digital text, hyphenation algorithms have become more sophisticated, though still imperfect, sometimes requiring manual adjustment to ensure accuracy and coherence in text layout. Understanding and correctly applying hyphenation rules is therefore not only a matter of linguistic accuracy but also a key aspect of effective visual communication.