trigram
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.
Noun
[edit]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) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (divination): inner trigram, outer trigram
Holonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]linguistics: special case of the n-gram
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