EGAVE

dyad

About 0.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
  2. noun Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
  3. noun The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
  4. noun Any set of two different pitch classes.
  5. noun An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
  6. noun A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
  7. noun A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
  8. noun A tensor of order two and rank one.

Similar words

duad twosome twain pair doubleton couplet distich couple duo duet

Often followed by

is and of in as to or symmetry was

Word family

dyadic dyadically dyads

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