trigram
Meanings
noun
- A trigraph, a sequence of three letters representing one phoneme.
- An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- Any of the eight combinations of three complete or broken lines forming half of a hexagram in Chinese system of divination I Ching.
Word forms
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Italic *trēs Latin trēsder. Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor. English -gram English trigram From tri- + -gram, literally “three marks”.
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