bigram
/ˈbaɪɡræm/
noun
- A pair of consecutive written units, such as letters or words, used in language analysis or cryptography.
- Language models often use bigrams to predict the next word in a sentence.
- In the phrase 'hello world', 'he', 'el', 'll', 'lo', 'ow', 'wo', 'or', 'rl', and 'ld' are all bigrams.
- The cryptographer analyzed the frequency of each bigram in the coded message.
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