Trigram
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Trigram is a noun meaning (linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
Meaning
(linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
More Meanings
- (computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- (divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
Example Sentences
In fact, half of all such words for this corpus are initiated by only 39 different trigrams!
Word Forms
- trigrams
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hexagram, tetragram, hexacle, tetragraph, digraph, heptagram.
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