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English
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 (1839–1903) Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.
Pronunciation
Noun
dyad (plural dyads)
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- Synonyms: couple, duad; see also Thesaurus:duo
1908, W. D. Ross, Metaphysics Book I, translation of original by Aristotle:[…] positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; […]
2019 January 29, Tom Bissell, “An Anti-Facebook Manifesto”, in New York Times:McNamee describes their grip on the company as “the most centralized decision-making structure I have ever encountered in a large company.” Their power dyad is possible only because Facebook’s “core platform,” as McNamee puts it, is relatively simple: It “consists of a product and a monetization scheme.”
- (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; dyadic relationship.
2003, Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms , page 20:For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling), […]
- (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
- (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
- (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
Derived terms
Translations
set of two different elements
(music) any set of two different pitch classes
pair of things standing in particular relation
(chemistry) element, atom, etc., having a valence of two
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