couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
(noun) two items of the same kind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dyad (plural dyads)
A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
Synonyms: couple, duad, Thesaurus:duo
(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.
(biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
(mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
• monad · duad, dyad · triad · tetrad · pentad · hexad · heptad · octad · ennead, nonad · decad, decade · hendecad · dodecad, duodecade
• Addy, D-Day, Dady, addy
Source: Wiktionary
Dy"ad, n. Etym: [L. dyas, dyadis, the number two. Gr. dyade. See two, and cf. Duad.]
1. Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
2. (Chem.)
Definition: An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
Dy"ad, a. (Chem.)
Definition: Having a valence or combining power of two; capable of being substituted for, combined with, or replaced by, two atoms of hydrogen; as, oxygen and calcium are dyad elements. See Valence.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
