-gram

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek suffix -γραμμα (-gramma), from γράμμα (gramma, “written character, letter, that which is drawn”), from γράφω (graphō, “to scratch, to scrape, to graze”)

Suffix

-gram

1. Something written, drawn or otherwise recorded.

Derived terms

[+] English words suffixed with -gram

terms derived using -gram (suffix)

correlogram - in the analysis of time series, a plot of the sample autocorrelations $r_h\,$ versus $h\,$ cosmogram - a flat geometric figure depicting a cosmology engram - a hypothetical means by which memory traces are stored histogram - a graphical display of tabulated frequencies, shown as bars monogram - a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol N-gram - a type of probabilistic model for predicting the next item in a sequence nastygram (has several different meanings) Ntigram - a form of histogram in which each bar represents the same (or approximately the same) number of cases photogram - a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a photo-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light pictogram - an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object radargram - a radar image of mineral deposits or a planetary surface reflectogram - the set of data captured in an application of reflectography renogram - a medical scan of the kidney scintigram - an image of part of the body, obtained by measuring (by means of scintillation or a similar method) the radiation emitted by a radioactive tracer sonogram - a diagnostic medical image created using ultrasound echo (sonographic) equipment spectrogram - an image that shows how the spectral density of a signal varies with time stereogram - a stereoscopic image trigram - a special case of the N-gram, where N is 3 zymogram - an electrophoretic technique for the detection of enzyme activity Lexical alphagram - the result of arranging a group of letters in alphabetical order ambigram - a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation anagram - the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ideogram - a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept semantogram - a symbol used solely for meaning pangram Types of message candygram - a message sent along with candy datagram - packets of an "unreliable" computer network service strippergram - a message conveyed via or with a stripper, by analogy with a singing telegram telegram - the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters Types of geometric figures decagram - a 10-sided star polygon enneagram - a nine-pointed geometric figure hendecagram - a star polygon that has eleven points heptagram - a seven-pointed star drawn with seven straight strokes hexagram - a six-pointed geometric star figure octagram - an eight-sided star polygon parallelogram - a four-sided figure whose opposite sides are parallel pentagram - the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes

Translations

something written

• Catalan: -grama (ca) m
• French: -gramme (fr)
• Galician: -grama (gl) m

• Portuguese: -grama (pt)
• Spanish: -grama (es) m

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Swedish

Suffix

-gram

1. -gram; same use and etymology as in English

Derived terms

[+] Swedish words suffixed with -gram