n-gram

English

Alternative forms

• ngram

Etymology

From n +‎ -gram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnˌɡɹæm/, /ˈɛŋˌɡɹæm/
• Homophone: engram

Noun

n-gram (plural n-grams)

1. (computational linguistics) A contiguous sequence of n items (usually characters or words) from a given sequence of text or speech, used in analysis.
   • 2012, Winnie Cheng, Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     Hyland's study demonstrates how n-grams can reveal similarities and differences both between genres and between different sets of writers.

Hyponyms

• unigram
• bigram
• trigram
• fourgram

Translations

linguistics: contiguous sequence of n items

• German: N-Gramm (de) n
• Icelandic: N-stæða f
• Swedish: n-gram (sv) n

See also

• shingle
• q-gram