Dyad
/ˈdaɪ.æd/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
"[…] positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; […]"
- 2 two items of the same kind wordnet
- 3 Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
"For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling), […]"
- 4 The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- 5 Any set of two different pitch classes.
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- 6 An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- 7 A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
- 8 A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- 9 A tensor of order two and rank one.
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More examples"In this paper I limit the discussion to Emmet's 'dyad' style in his works from 1995."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δυάς (duás), δυάδ- (duád-) from δύο (dúo, “two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁). The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.