Triad vs Trad - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between triad and trad

is that triad is a grouping of three while trad is {{l/en|traditional climbing}}.

short for traditional, referring to an older or original style, especially in the phrase trad jazz.

(en noun)

A grouping of three.

(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

* (group of three) threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirate

Short for traditional, referring to an older or original style, especially in the phrase trad jazz.

Short for traditional, used in lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.

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(climbing) .

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