noun
- a combination of two letters representing one sound
- a directed graph in mathematics consisting of vertices connected by directed edges
Usage: linguistics
Usage: mathematics; computer science
Examples
- The letters ‘ch’ form a digraph in the word ‘chair’.
- In English, ‘th’ is a common digraph that makes different sounds in ‘think’ and ‘this’.
- The digraph ‘ph’ represents the ‘f’ sound in words like ‘phone’.
- Students learn to recognize digraphs when studying phonics.
- The algorithm uses a digraph to represent the network connections.
- Each edge in the digraph has a specific direction from one vertex to another.