trigram

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ -gram, literally “three marks”.

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) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.

Hyponyms

(divination): inner trigram, outer trigram

Holonyms

(divination): hexagram, tetragram

Translations

linguistics: special case of the n-gram

Icelandic: þrístæða f

See also

☰, ☱, ☲, ☳, ☴, ☵, ☶, ☷

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