suspended hyphen

English

Examples (grammar)
  • measured by centi- or millimeters
  • single- and double-precision values

Noun

suspended hyphen (plural suspended hyphens)

  1. A type of hyphen used to represent omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list.
    Synonyms: dangling hyphen, floating hyphen, hanging hyphen, suspension hyphen, suspensive hyphen

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