trigram

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ -gram; literally, three marks

Noun

trigram (plural trigrams)

1. Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
2. A trigraph.
3. (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

Translations

linguistics: special case of the n-gram

• Icelandic: þrístæða f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• ☰, ☱, ☲, ☳, ☴, ☵, ☶, ☷