Hyphenation of machicolations

How to hyphenate machicolations

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

machicolations

Syllables Count: 1
Characters Count: 14
Alpha-numeric Characters Count: 14
Hyphens Count: 0

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

Definitions of machicolations

machicolations is defined as:

Definition 1 as noun

noun
An opening between corbels that support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, of a fortified building from which missiles can be shot or heated items dropped upon assailants attacking the base of the walls.
Synonyms: machicoulis
noun
A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.

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What is hyphenation

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