ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
  2. (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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hexagram, tetragram, hexacle, tetragraph, digraph, heptagram.

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