Triad vs Trilogy - What's the difference?
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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.
A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
As nouns the difference between triad and trilogy
is that triad is a grouping of three while trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works they are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.triad
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of three) threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirateSee also
* monad * dyad * mafia * tong * yakuza * ("triad" on Wikipedia)Anagrams
*trilogy
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(wikipedia trilogy)Noun
(trilogies)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.