Meaning of combining form | Babel Free

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1. A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.
2. A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.

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“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.”

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