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English
Pronunciation
Noun
duad (plural duads)
- A pair or couple.
- Synonyms: dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo
1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Minor Tribes and the Mpongwe”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. , part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, , →OCLC, page 96:[T]hey have invented idols, a manifest advance toward that polytheism and pantheism which lead through a triad and duad of deities to monotheism, the finial of the spiritual edifice.
- (astrology) Dwadasama.
- (mathematics) An unordered pair.
Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
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Swedish
Participle
duad
- past participle of dua
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