1. plural of hyphenation; the act or process of connecting words or word parts with a hyphen, or the result of this process
Usage: commonly used in typography, grammar, and publishing contexts
2. instances or examples of words that are hyphenated
Usage: refers to specific hyphenated words or compounds

Examples

• The style guide specifies rules for hyphenations in compound adjectives.
• Different dictionaries may disagree on hyphenations of certain words.
• Modern word processors automatically suggest hyphenations at line breaks.
• The editor corrected several hyphenations in the manuscript.
• Hyphenations can change over time as language evolves.
• British and American English sometimes differ in their hyphenations.