text-matching

1. 1.

   a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text

   “Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text”

   Broaderprogram

Questions about text-matching

What does text-matching mean?

text-matching means "a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text".

How many syllables are in text-matching?

text-matching has 3 syllables and divides as text--mat-ching under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is text-matching a common word?

text-matching is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.