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Dyad vs Dyadically - What's the difference?

dyad | dyadically |

As a noun dyad

is a set of two elements treated as one; a pair.

As an adverb dyadically is

in a dyadic manner; as a dyad or by means of dyads.

dyad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=W. D. Ross, title=, by=Aristotle
    • , passage=... positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; ...}}
  • (music) any set of two different pitch classes.
  • A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
  • * "For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling),..." Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides - The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach , p. 20
  • (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

    • Derived terms

    * dyadic

    See also

    * monad * pair * triad * interval * trichord * hexachord * tetrachord

    Anagrams

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    dyadically

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a dyadic manner; as a dyad or by means of dyads.
    • In the APL programming language, some operators can be used both monadically and dyadically .