bigram

English

Etymology

bi- +‎ -gram

Noun

bigram (plural bigrams)

  1. (linguistics) A pair, often of words or tags, used in analysis.
    • 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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  • Often used attributively – "bigram model".

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