English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “porosity”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for porosity is poros-i-ty, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
poros-i-ty
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result poros-ity The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordporosity
Hyphenationporos-i-ty
Break points2
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciation/pəˈrɑsədi/
Meaning & usage

What does “porosity” mean?

porosity: The quality or degree of having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass.

Headwordporosity
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciation/pəˈrɑsədi/
1
noun

The quality or degree of having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass.

Example: “clays may have twice the porosity of sands”

Word breaks

How “porosity” is split

poros·i·ty

For US English, the hyphenation result is poros-i-ty. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns poros-ity.

Quick answers

Questions about “porosity”

How do you hyphenate “porosity”?

In the US-English result used here, porosity is hyphenated as poros-i-ty.

Where can “porosity” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “porosity” mean?

The quality or degree of having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass.

Can you use “porosity” in a sentence?

“clays may have twice the porosity of sands”