Dictionary

trigram en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.

Meanings

1. A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
2. 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! 1974, Edward C. Carterette, Margaret Hubbard Jones, Informal Speech: Alphabetic & Phonemic Texts with Statistical Analyses and Tables, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 44:
3. (qualifier:divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.

Forms

Coordinates

bigram

Holonyms

tetragram · hexagram

Relateds

☷ · ☳ · ☵ · ☶ · ☴ · ☰ · ☱ · ☲

Translations (1)

is þrístæða (linguistics: n-gram consisting of three items)