English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “xanthin”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for xanthin is xan-thin, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
xan-thin
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result xanthin The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordxanthin
Hyphenationxan-thin
Break points1
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationˈzanθiːn
Meaning & usage

What does “xanthin” mean?

xanthin: a crystalline compound found in blood and urine which is an intermediate in the metabolic breakdown of nucleic acids to uric acid.

Headwordxanthine
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciationˈzanθiːn
1
noun

a crystalline compound found in blood and urine which is an intermediate in the metabolic breakdown of nucleic acids to uric acid.

Word breaks

How “xanthin” is split

xan·thin

For US English, the hyphenation result is xan-thin. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns xanthin.

Quick answers

Questions about “xanthin”

How do you hyphenate “xanthin”?

In the US-English result used here, xanthin is hyphenated as xan-thin.

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

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “xanthin” mean?

a crystalline compound found in blood and urine which is an intermediate in the metabolic breakdown of nucleic acids to uric acid.

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