Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Three letters spelling one consonant, vowel, or diphthong, such as Sch in Schiller or igh in high or thigh.
- noun A group of three letters, especially of frequent occurrence in a given language, as the or ing in English or gli in Italian.
- noun Any combination of three letters of an alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A combination of three letters to represent one sound; a triphthong, as eau in beau.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as
-ieu inadieu ; a triphthong.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics A specific sequence of three
letters , especially one used collectively torepresent a singlephoneme .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The difference may be in the language to describe the concepts (rods), or the subjective value of even studying them (trigraph, linguals).
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This trigraph is frequently found in medieval and Renaissance art.
Archive 2008-09-01 Sissie 2008
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This trigraph is frequently found in medieval and Renaissance art.
More on the "H" Sissie 2008
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What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals & nbsp;
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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In English, the trigraph "the" is most common, and the cryptanalyst can safely assume that the most frequent trigraph may well be those three plaintext letters, which have rotated under the same key alphabets in a suitably long volume of text.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Howard C. Berkowitz 2010
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I'm tracking each single letter, digraph, and trigraph with timing data and error rates.
doggdot.us 2009
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What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals& nbsp;
Daled Amos 2009
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I'm tracking each single letter, digraph, and trigraph with timing data and error rates.
doggdot.us 2009
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It also enables the undesirable and rarely used ISO trigraph feature.
LinuxQuestions.org 2008
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It also enables the undesirable and rarely used ISO trigraph feature.
LinuxQuestions.org 2008
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