suprasegmental

noun

1. An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to a suprasegmental.

   “There are two kinds of phonemes in Chinese: segmental phonemes, which may be thought of as sequential sounds, and suprasegmental phonemes or tones, which in a sense are added to the syllable as a whole.”

2. (not-comparable)More than a segment.