trigram
nounEtymology From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
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Computational, Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Linguistics, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- In fact, half of all such words for this corpus are initiated by only 39 different trigrams!1974, Edward C. Carterette, Margaret Hubbard Jones, Informal Speech: Alphabetic & Phonemic Texts with Statistical Analyses and Tables, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 44:
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Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
- Related terms
- ☰, ☱, ☲, ☳, ☴, ☵, ☶, ☷