suspended hyphen

English

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

suspended hyphen (plural suspended hyphens)

a type of hyphen used to represent omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list.

a hyphen for omission

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.