digraph

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Thus, the center of a digraph is a vertex that is closest to the vertex most distant from it.

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  1. noun A pair of letters representing a single speech sound, such as the ph in pheasant or the ea in beat.
  2. noun A single character consisting of two letters run together and representing a single sound, such as Old English æ.

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  • Recognizing a digraph is one of the many difficulties in learning a language.
  • A procedure for finding a partial subdigraph of a digraph that is isomorphic to a given digraph is also described. decomposition detection generator gt-itm isomorphism mapping network stage subgraph two virtual CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I'm tracking each single letter, digraph, and trigraph with timing data and error rates. —  doggdot.us
  • [12] It is considered especially elegant if the digraph is part of the word, so if the digraph for "Eastasia" were EA, EASTWOOD would be a perfectly acceptable cryptonym. clandestine cell system. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • For example, English lacks accented (letters bearing a diacritic mark such as the "e" in "noël"), hybrid (such as the digraph ligature æ often used in British English in words such as encyclopædia or the ampersand character - a contraction of "et"), and pictograph characters. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from Greek δι-, two-, + γράφειν, write.
 

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/ˈdaɪgræf/
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