noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A directed graph.
2. 2
   A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
3. 3
   two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’) wordnet
4. 4
   A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.

   "As a special education teacher, I find that introducing one or two digraphs a week works well."

5. 5
   a sequence of two lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice.

Synonyms

All synonyms

digramdirected graph

Example

More examples

"In mathematics, a quiver is a digraph."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Blend of directed + graph.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “double”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”), equivalent to di- + -graph.

Related phrases

acyclic digraphadjacency matrixdirected graphfinite relationincidence matrix

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.