dyad
Plural: dyads
Noun
- A pair of two individuals or units regarded as a single entity.
- two items of the same kind
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
- The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- Any set of two different pitch classes.
- An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
- A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- A tensor of order two and rank one.
Examples
- The powerful dyad of ’Q’ and ’Z’ tiles often creates high-scoring words in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek δυάς (duás), δυάδ- (duád-) from δύο (dúo, “two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁). The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.
Synonyms
brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke, doublet, duplet, dyad, twinsome
Scrabble Score: 9
dyad: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddyad: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dyad: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary