A hyphen at which line wrapping cannot occur. It ensures that the enclosing word remains on the same line should a line break be required anywhere within the word. In this case, the word is moved to the next line. See also: soft hyphen

Another term for nonbreaking hyphen. See NONBREAKING HYPHEN

In typography, a hyphen that is always typeset, regardless of where on the line it falls. Such a hyphen would be one of those in the word “mother-in-law”.

A hyphen that is manually inserted into a word. If the text reflows, it will still be in the word and will need to be deleted manually.

a non breaking hyphen, used when the two parts of the hyphenated word should not be separated. As opposed to a soft (or normal) hyphen, on which the word-wrapping function of a program will break a line.

In word processing, a special hyphen that acts as a regular character so that text cannot word wrap at this hyphen. Synonymous with non breaking hyphen. sarara guddaa View