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English
Etymology
From nona- + -ad.
Pronunciation
Noun
nonad (plural nonads)
- (rare) Synonym of ennead (“collection or series of nine things”)
1891, The Yoga-vásishtha-mahárámáyana of Válmiki:By Trisection of the three sections of a Tripartite circle. Symbolical of a nonad or nine fold nature of the Deity.
1921, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, page 6:The nonuply perspective nonads of Milne are distinct from all cases of cyclic nonads given by the theory of section I. of this paper […]
2020, John Krey, The Structure of Knowledge Using Natural Patterns, page 3:The beginning, middle and end of the nonad forms a triad, […]
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
collection or series of nine things
— see enneadAnagrams