bigram

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ -gram.

Noun

bigram (plural bigrams)

1. (linguistics, often attributive) An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence.

   bigram model

   • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:

     Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.

Hypernyms

• n-gram

Coordinate terms

• trigram

Translations

linguistics: a pair used in analysis

• Icelandic: tvístæða f
• Swedish: bigram n

Anagrams

• gambir