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Vinony

trigraph

noun

  1. group of three characters used to write one phoneme
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪɡɹɑːf/ / /ˈtɹaɪɡɹæf/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English trigraph From tri- + -graph.

  1. A specific sequence of three letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.

    “The letter “i” is pronounced as /aɪ/ when followed by the trigraph “ght”, as in right /raɪt/.”

    “Then, practice reading fluency sentences together that contain words with trigraphs and other mastered words.”

  2. A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.

    “These new features are charizing, stringization, token concatenation, string concatenation, trigraph replacement, and predefined macros.”