TRIGRAM

trigram

(noun) a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

trigram (plural trigrams)

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

A trigraph.

(linguistics) a special case of the n-gram where n is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts

Hyponyms

• (divination): inner trigram, outer trigram

Holonyms

• (divination): hexagram, tetragram

Source: Wiktionary


Tri"gram, n. Etym: [Pref. tri- + -gram.]

Definition: Same as Trigraph.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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