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trigram|ˈtraɪgræm|
[f. Gr. τρι- tri- + γράµµα, -ατ-, line, letter, or γραµµή stroke, line.]
a. An inscription of three letters; also, = trigraph (Webster 1864); spec. in Psychol., a (nonsense) word of three letters used in the study of learning or memory (see esp. quot. 1960).
b. A figure or character formed of three strokes; also spec., a figure traditionally used in the Chinese philosophy of the I Ching for the purposes of divination.
c. Geom., etc. A set of three lines; spec. the figure formed by three straight lines in one plane not intersecting in the same point; also more generally, any figure composed of three elements.
1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 17 Inscryving their tombes with a trigram of D.M.S. 1801J. Hager Babylon. Inscr. 54 What connexion is there between the first trigram, or three united strokes, to represent heaven, and..the second trigram,..three broken ones, to represent the earth? 1877J. Legge in Encycl. Brit. VI. 263/2 The Yih King..the rudiments of which are assigned to Fuh-hsi in the 30th century B.C. Those rudiments, however, are merely the 8 trigrams and 64 diagrams, composed of a whole and a broken line. 1882Athenæum 2 Sept. 297/1 The hexagrams..are composed each of a double trigram... The trigrams consist of three lines one above the other. 1897–8Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 842 The swastika itself merely represents two super⁓posed trigrams. 1923J. P. Bruce Chu Hsi & his Masters vi. 127 The Grand Terminus..produced the two elementary Forms. These two Forms produced the four Symbols, which, again, produced the eight Trigrams. The eight Trigrams served to determine the good and evil issues of events. 1957,1965[see I Ching]. 1960E. J. Archer in Psychol. Monogr. LXXIV. x. 1/2 This study is a re-evaluation of the meaningfulness of all possible three-letter combinations of the Roman alphabet of the form consonant-vowel-consonant... It is herewith proposed to call these combinations ‘trigrams’, and in view of their form to further specify them as ‘CVC trigrams’. 1970Jrnl. General Psychol. LXXXIII. 214 The study..assumes that an object elicits a given number of mediating responses with which a CVC trigram can be associated. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 15 Correct recognitions of trigrams on test trials. 1974Sci. Amer. Jan. 108/2 There are two ancient ways of displaying the eight trigrams in a circle.
So trigraˈmmatic, triˈgrammic adjs., consisting of three letters (= triliteral) or sets of letters; triˈgrammatism = triliteralism.
1824T. Young in Suppl. Encycl. Brit. IV. 43/1 The ‘trilinguar’ or rather trigrammatic Stone of Rosetta. 1839Donaldson New Cratylus §70 (1850) 107 Their apparent [Semitic] trigrammatism, their etymological disintegration, and the tertiary condition in which their oldest remains are found, must be referred to the constant intermixtures, re-unions [etc.]. 1846Worcester, Trigrammic, containing three letters. Thomson. 1847Webster, Trigrammatic, containing three sets of characters or letters. Gliddon. |