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suprasegmental

a. 1 Of or relating to a suprasegmental. 2 More than a segment. n. (context phonetics English) An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and aspiration, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.

WordNet
suprasegmental

adj. pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound

Usage examples of "suprasegmental".

Oldfellow whined, but he had neither her vocabulary, suprasegmental tropes of remote jungle origin, nor her numinosity.