Re: timelapse, time-lapse, or time lapse

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Robert Peterson wrote:

> Here is a question I've often wondered about. Which is it: timelapse,
> time-lapse, or time lapse?

American Heritage Dictionary lists it as "time-lapse".  I expect they
use the hyphen because it's a compound word.

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