trigram

English

Etymology

From tri- +‎ -gram, literally “three marks”.

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.
2. A trigraph.
3. (linguistics) An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.

Hyponyms

• (divination): inner trigram, outer trigram

Holonyms

• (divination): hexagram, tetragram

Translations

linguistics: special case of the n-gram

• Icelandic: þrístæða f

See also

• ☰, ☱, ☲, ☳, ☴, ☵, ☶, ☷