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μερισμός — meaning in English

merismos

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English meaning

  • diaeresis noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables with no consonant between them.
  • partition noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
  • sharing noun The act of letting others use or enjoy something along with you.

Senses

μερισμός is used for these senses in English:

  • diaeresis (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
  • partition An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
  • partition That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
  • sharing Something shared; a point in common.

diaeresis — full definition

  1. noun In linguistics, the splitting of what would normally be one syllable, especially a diphthong, into two separate syllables, or a gap between vowel sounds in neighbouring syllables with no consonant between them.
  2. noun The mark of two dots placed over a vowel, usually the second of two vowels in a row, to show that it is pronounced as its own syllable.

partition — full definition

  1. noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.
  2. noun The division of a country or territory into separate, independently governed parts.
  3. noun A separately formatted section of a computer's hard drive.
  4. verb To divide something into separate parts or sections.
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