noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
2. 2
   a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system wordnet
3. 3
   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!"

4. 4
   Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.

Synonyms

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bigram

Example

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"In fact, half of all such words for this corpus are initiated by only 39 different trigrams!"

Etymology

From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.

Related phrases

i chingn gram

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