tetragram

American  

[te-truh-gram] / ˈtɛ trəˌgræm /

noun

1. a word of four letters.

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tetragram British  

/ ˈtɛtrəˌɡræm /

noun

1. any word of four letters

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Etymology

Origin of tetragram

1860–65; < Greek tetrágrammon, noun use of neuter of tetrágrammos having four letters, equivalent to tetra- tetra- + grámm ( a ) letter ( see -gram ¹) + -os adj. suffix

Example Sentences

To illustrate this, I implemented a simple learning algorithm based on letter positions in a tetragram.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 6, 2012

For each bigram, the number of occurrences of that bigram in the entire tetragram data set was counted.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 6, 2012

Scores of >0 mean that the tetragram is a word, scores of <0 mean that the tetragram is a nonword, and scores of 0 were randomly assigned to word or nonword.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 6, 2012

It was shaped like a little house surmounted by a cross and encircled, under the pediment, by the dial-like figure of the tetragram.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene