"bigram" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bigrams [plural]
Etymology: From bi- + -gram. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|bi|gram}} bi- + -gram Head templates: {{en-noun}} bigram (plural bigrams)
  1. (linguistics, often attributive) An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence. Tags: attributive, often Categories (topical): Linguistics Hypernyms: n-gram Coordinate_terms: trigram Translations (linguistics: a pair used in analysis): tvístæða [feminine] (Icelandic), bigram [neuter] (Swedish)

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