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word boundary

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word boundary [′wȯrd ‚bau̇n·drē]
(computer science)
A storage address that is a multiple of the word length of a computer.


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If the glottal stop is followed by a word that starts with a consonant, the glottal stop usually gets assimilated with that word-initial consonant and a geminate is formed at the word boundary as in e.
The division may be at a word boundary, or it may be at a root or prefix boundary (less than a word boundary but in any case be a syllable boundary).
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