Non-breaking

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not generating a line break, as in non-breaking space or non-breaking hyphen. not-comparable

Example

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"The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking."

Etymology

From non- + breaking.

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