"trigram" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: trigrams [plural]
Etymology: From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”. Etymology templates: {{af|en|tri-|-gram|lit=three marks}} tri- + -gram, literally “three marks” Head templates: {{en-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. Hyponyms (divination): inner trigram, outer trigram Holonyms (divination): hexagram, tetragram
    Sense id: en-trigram-en-noun-1TaNJEI1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with tri-, English terms suffixed with -gram, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Icelandic translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 4 38 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with tri-: 54 11 34 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gram: 58 2 39 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 69 1 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 60 3 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 62 1 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 64 3 33 Disambiguation of 'divination': 100 0 0 Disambiguation of 'divination': 100 0 0
  2. A trigraph.
    Sense id: en-trigram-en-noun-7-ul-Qp6
  3. (linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence. Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (linguistics: special case of the n-gram): þrístæða [feminine] (Icelandic)
    Sense id: en-trigram-en-noun-c1EWhx3G Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'linguistics: special case of the n-gram': 33 20 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: , , , , , , ,

Inflected forms

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