Hyphenation of ontology

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word ontology? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

on-tol-ogy

Definitions of ontology:

1.	(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
2.	The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

Synonyms of ontology:

noun	metaphysics

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