Associations to the word «Trigram»

Wiktionary

TRIGRAM, noun. 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).
TRIGRAM, noun. A trigraph.
TRIGRAM, noun. (linguistics) a special case of the n-gram where n is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts

Dictionary definition

TRIGRAM, noun. A word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope