triad

About 1.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A grouping of three.
2. noun A romantic or sexual relationship between three individuals; a throuple.
3. noun A word of three syllables.
4. noun A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
5. noun On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
6. noun A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.

Similar words

trinity trio threesome trine ternary ternion three tierce tercet trey

Often followed by

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Word family

triadic triadically triads