Combining form
"Combining form" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.
As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text.