trigram

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

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trigram (plural trigrams)

(linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
(computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
Coordinate term: (two items) bigram
- 1974, Edward C. Carterette, Margaret Hubbard Jones, Informal Speech: Alphabetic & Phonemic Texts with Statistical Analyses and Tables, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 44:
  In fact, half of all such words for this corpus are initiated by only 39 different trigrams!
(divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
Hyponyms: inner trigram, outer trigram

Holonyms: hexagram, tetragram

linguistics: n-gram consisting of three items

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