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Heterogram

Heterogram logo #21000[linguistics] Heterogram (from [Greek] heteros, meaning `different`, + -gram, meaning `written`) is a term used mostly in the study of ancient texts (philology), referring to a special kind of a logogram consisting of the written representation of a word in a foreign language. In most cases, the two languages share the same script. However,...
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Heterogram

Heterogram logo #21000[literature] A heterogram (from hetero-, meaning `different`, + -gram, meaning `written`) is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. An isogram, in which all letters occur an equal number of times, is the same as a heterogram when each letter occurs once. A heterogram may be distinguished from a...
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