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What is the noun for hyphens?

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hyphen
  1. The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
  2. (figuratively) Something that links two more consequential things.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “John's email address had a hyphen between his first and last name.”
hyphenism
  1. The use of hyphenated terms to describe people's identities, as in "Irish-American".
  2. Examples:
    1. “Disloyalty and hyphenism came to be seen as opposites of 100 percent Americanism.”
hyphenate
  1. A person with multiple duties or abilities, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
  2. Synonyms:
hyphenation
  1. The inclusion of hyphens; especially, the correct locations of hyphens.
  2. Examples:
    1. “That's about when hyphenation was seized upon as a solution to surname patriarchy.”
      “It is in that state of hyphenation that we live our daily lives, comfortable in our dual skins.”
      “I thought that type of obloquious hyphenation was the sole legacy of product marketing.”
hyphenations
  1. plural of hyphenation
hyphenisms
  1. plural of hyphenism
hyphenates
hyphens
  1. plural of hyphen
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Should your domain be one single word or should the words be separated by hyphens?”
      “It would be nice to think this tip-off enabled him to avoid this fate but I fear his life was lost along with those missing hyphens.”
      “I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat.”
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