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Trigram vs Tetragram - What's the difference?

trigram | tetragram | coordinate terms |

Tetragram is a coordinate term of trigram.



As nouns the difference between trigram and tetragram

is that trigram is in Chinese Taoism, a symbol composed of three marks each of two types (creating 8 possible symbols) which are used for philosophical discussion and divination (fortunetelling) while tetragram is a group of four letters.

trigram

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia trigram)
  • In Chinese Taoism, a symbol composed of three marks each of two types (creating 8 possible symbols) which are used for philosophical discussion and divination (fortunetelling).
  • A trigraph.
  • (linguistics) a special case of the n''-gram where ''n is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts
  • tetragram

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tetragramme (very rare)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of four letters.
  • Synonyms

    * tetragraph

    Coordinate terms

    * trigram