bigram

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

bigram (plural bigrams)

  1. (linguistics, often attributive) An n-gram consisting of two items from a sequence.
    Coordinate term: (three items) trigram
    bigram model
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 2:
      Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.

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