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syllabificating

syllabificating adjective: that denotes syllabic breaks. Also the present participle and gerund of syllabificate.

Adjective

syllabificating (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) That denotes syllabic breaks.
    • A record on one card consists of letter expression as an entry, phonemic expression (with stress mark and syllabificating mark if the word is polysyllabic), and possible functions of the word.1968, Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Acoustics (Elsevier Pub. Co.), volumes 1–3, page B-156

Also used as

syllabificating is also the present participle and gerund of syllabificate.

Origin of syllabificating

First attested in 1968; formed as syllabificat(ion) + -ing; compare the later syllabificate.

From syllabificate + -ing.

Questions about syllabificating

What does syllabificating mean?
Syllabificating means that denotes syllabic breaks.
What part of speech is syllabificating?
Syllabificating is an adjective.

Words near syllabificating in the dictionary

  1. syllabics
  2. syllabifiable
  3. syllabificate
  4. syllabificated
  5. syllabificates
  6. syllabificating
  7. syllabification
  8. syllabifications
  9. syllabified
  10. syllabifies
  11. syllabify

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