trigraph
nounUK /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ · US /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/
Etymology From tri- + -graph.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
- The letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.
- Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.2023 December 6, Sarah Forst, “How to Teach Trigraphs DGE & TCH”, in The Designer Teacher:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
- These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186:
- Related terms
- digraph, tetragraph, pentagraph, hexagraph, heptagraph, octagraph, monophthong, diphthong, triphthong, ligature