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trigraphs

trigraphs is the plural of trigraph.

Meaning of trigraph

Noun

trigraph (plural trigraphs)

  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/.
  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.1993, Mark Andrews, Visual C++ Object-oriented Programming, page 186

Questions about trigraphs

What is trigraphs the plural of?
Trigraphs is the plural of trigraph.

Words near trigraphs in the dictionary

  1. trigrammic
  2. trigrams
  3. trigraph
  4. trigraphic
  5. trigraphically
  6. trigraphs
  7. trigs
  8. triguttulate
  9. Trigwell
  10. trigynous
  11. trihalide

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