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Definition of Trigram
1. Noun. A word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system.
Definition of Trigram
1. n. Same as Trigraph.
Definition of Trigram
1. 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). ¹
2. Noun. A trigraph. ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) a special case of the ''n''-gram where ''n'' is 3, used in natural language processing for doing statistical analysis of texts ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trigram
1. a cluster of three successive letters [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trigram
1. Same as Trigraph. Origin: Pref. Tri- + -gram. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trigram
Literary usage of Trigram
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1899)
"It is the trigram of the south. The sages turn their faces to the south when ...
Kan is the trigram of the north-east. In it all things bring to a full end ..."
2. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1882)
"It is the trigram of the south. The sages turn their faces to the south when they
give audience to all under the sky, administering government towards the ..."
3. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"He struggles in Chien, which is the trigram of the northwest. ... Kan is the
trigram of the northeast. In it all things bring to a full end the issues of ..."
4. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"trigram-based retrieval has been tried in TREC-2 by Cavnar (Cavnar, 1993) in both
adhoc and routing and the results which have been obtained are poor by ..."
5. Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan by Stewart Culin (1895)
"If the lowest line of the trigram at which the count stops is broken, the lowest
block of the six, that is the one nearest the diviner, is turned so that ..."
6. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"Secondly, if a trigram is together and on the floor, it is not good enough to
... Whenever trigrams are visible they are to be described by either trigram ..."
7. The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) by Yung Sik Kim (2000)
"When the bottom one line of k 'an is closed up, it forms the tui trigram. ...
For example, he explained the associations of the li trigram with Fire and ..."
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