"trigram" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: trigrams [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|:af|tri-|-gram|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "three", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*tréyes", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*tri-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*tri-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "tri-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "tri-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "lbor.", "keyword_label" : "Learned borrowing from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "written", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to scratch", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to scratch", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "to carve", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*gerbʰ-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*grə́pʰō", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "γρᾰ́φω", "gloss" : "to write", "lang" : "grc" }, { "id" : "nominalizing suffix", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-mn̥", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*-mə", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-μᾰ", "lang" : "grc", "pos" : "result noun suffix" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "γράμμα", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-gram", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "trigram", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="trigram">, {{af|en|tri-|-gram|lit=three marks}} tri- + -gram, literally “three marks” Head templates: {{en-noun}} trigram (plural trigrams)
  1. (linguistics) A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
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  2. (computational linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence. Coordinate_terms: bigram Translations (linguistics: n-gram consisting of three items): þrístæða [feminine] (Icelandic)
    Sense id: en-trigram-en-noun-c1EWhx3G Categories (other): Computational linguistics, English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons, English entries with etymology trees, English terms prefixed with tri-, English terms suffixed with -gram Disambiguation of English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons: 16 39 45 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 17 39 44 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with tri-: 19 37 44 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -gram: 8 59 34 Topics: computational, computing, engineering, human-sciences, linguistics, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'linguistics: n-gram consisting of three items': 10 67 23
  3. (divination) Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching. Holonyms: hexagram, tetragram
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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    {
      "word": "☱"
    },
    {
      "word": "☲"
    },
    {
      "word": "☳"
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    {
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          "ref": "1974, Edward C. Carterette, Margaret Hubbard Jones, Informal Speech: Alphabetic & Phonemic Texts with Statistical Analyses and Tables, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 44:",
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    {
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    }
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}

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