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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bigram en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/ (General-American)

Etymology

From bi- + -gram.

Meanings

  1. (attributive, often) An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence; a 2-gram.
    • bigram model
    • Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bigrams Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

trigram

Translations (2)

is tvístæða (linguistics: a pair used in analysis) · sv bigram (linguistics: a pair used in analysis)