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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdaɪ.æd/Part of speech nounSorted addyStarts with DEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. two items of the same kind

Word origin

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.

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  • […] positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; […]
  • For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling), […]
  • The southern relationship was a slaveholder-physician dyad, with the slave left outside, unconsulted, uninformed, and with no recourse if she or he was unsatisfied, injured, or killed—a medical nonentity.

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