monogram

Meanings

1. A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

1. A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

1. A design or motif composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution; the letters are usually the initials of their names.

1. To mark something with a monogram.

1. One of the symbols used in either the I Ching divination or the Taixuanjing divination:
2. the unbroken line ⚊ for Heaven;
3. the once-broken line ⚋ for Earth;
4. the twice-broken line 𝌀 for Man (only used in Taixuanjing divination).

Etymology

From French monogramme, from the Classical Latin adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured Ancient Greek * μονόγραμμος (monógrammos, “outlined”, “drawn with single lines”).