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Trigraph vs Trigram - What's the difference?

trigraph | trigram |

In linguistics terms the difference between trigraph and trigram

is that trigraph is a specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme while trigram is a special case of the n-gram where n is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts.

trigraph

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

    • Related terms

    * triphthong * ligature

    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