bigram

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ.ɡɹæm/

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.

Translations

linguistics: a pair used in analysis

• Icelandic: tvístæða f
• Swedish: bigram n

Anagrams

• gambir