digraph


Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

di·graph

 (dī′grăf′)
n.
1. A pair of letters representing a single speech sound, such as the ph in pheasant or the ea in beat.
2. A single character consisting of two letters run together and representing a single sound, such as Old English æ.
di·graph′ic (dī-grăf′ĭk) adj.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

digraph

(ˈdaɪɡrɑːf; -ɡræf)
n
(Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics a combination of two letters or characters used to represent a single speech sound such as gh in English tough. Compare ligature5, diphthong
digraphic adj
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

di•graph

(ˈdaɪ græf, -grɑf)

n.
a pair of letters representing a single speech sound, as ea in meat or th in path.
[1780–90]
di•graph′ic (-ˈgræf ɪk) adj.
di•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.digraph - two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
digram
alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Translations

digraph

n → Digraph m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
Then B([[LAMBDA].sub.*]) - [I.sub.1] is an adjacency matrix of an acyclic digraph with l nodes (see [2]).
The number of orientable small covers over a product of simplices
Definition 6 [50] A SVN digraph D is of the form D = ([V.sub.D], [A.sub.D]) where,
On Single Valued Neutrosophic Signed Digraph and its Applications
Alternative terms have been used with press-to-press described as digraph latency (Leggett, Williams, Usnick & Longnecker, 1991) and the release-to-press time being described as the flight time (Stefan & Yao, 2010).
Biometric Identification and Authentication in Computers: Keystroke Dynamics
Aside from their French heritage, the artist Claude Monet and the composer Georges Bizet share another commonality--both of their surnames end with the digraph ET which is pronounced like a long "A".
"ET" ALL
Let her know on Twitter: @larajkilner * A split digraph is when two vowels are split by a consonant to form a new sound, as in our example above - bake (or cake or lake).
Is it wine o'clock yet? The trials and tribulations of getting through the day as a working mum
Based on graph theory, a network can be represented by a digraph G with l(l [greater than or equal to] 2) vertices.
Graph-Theoretic Approach to Exponential Stability of Delayed Coupled Systems on Networks under Periodically Intermittent Control
However, the new approach in their work is mixing the concept of the reflexive acyclic digraph with fixed point results.
Extension of Kirk-Saliga Fixed Point Theorem in a Metric Space with a Reflexive Digraph
The communication relations among N agents are described by the signed digraph G = (V, E, A), where V = {1, ..., N} and E [subset not equal to] V x V represent the node set and the edge set, respectively.
Event-Triggered Bipartite Consensus of Single-Integrator Multi-Agent Systems with Measurement Noise
Let G(X, f) denote the digraph whose set of vertices is X and there is a directed edge from a [member of] X to b [member of] X if f(a) = b.
The Structure of Isomorphic Digraph from Powers Modulo [p.sup.e]
[13] considered the existence of a coupled fixed point of ([phi], [psi])-contractive mappings endowed with a digraph and applied the obtained results to the system of two integral equations.
Some Results on N-Tupled Coincidence and Fixed Points of Graphs on Metric Spaces and an Application to Integral Equations

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?