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What does hyphenation mean?

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Noun
  1. The inclusion of hyphens; especially, the correct locations of hyphens.
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The spelling and hyphenation in the original are inconsistent, and have not been changed.
Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation have been retained from the original.
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.
Jackson's family originally wanted the name changed entirely, while Hartsfield's family opposed the hyphenation.
That's about when hyphenation was seized upon as a solution to surname patriarchy.

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