pentagraph
English
Alternative forms
- pantograph (meaning 1)
Noun
pentagraph (plural pentagraphs)
Illustration of a pentagraph.
- A device used in surveying composed of four flat, straight brass rules, two of which are long and are connected by a double pivot at the end to create a V shape, and two of which are short and joined by a double pivot to create another V shape pointed away from the first, with the other ends of the short rules connected at the halfway mark of the long rules, so that the entire figure creates a parallelogram.
- (linguistics) A specific sequence of five letters, especially one used collectively to represent a single phoneme.
- (computing) A five-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
Related terms
- digraph
- trigraph
- tetragraph
- hexagraph
- heptagraph
- octagraph
- monophthong
- diphthong
- triphthong
- ligature
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