duad
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdjuːæd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd(j)uæd/
- Hyphenation: du‧ad
Noun edit
duad (plural duads)
- A pair or couple.
- Synonyms: dyad, twosome; see also Thesaurus:duo
- 1876, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Minor Tribes and the Mpongwe”, in Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. […], part I (The Gaboon River and Gorilla Land), London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, […], →OCLC, page 96:
- [T]hey have invented idols, a manifest advance toward that polytheism and pantheism which lead through a triad and duad of deities to monotheism, the finial of the spiritual edifice.
- (astrology) Dwadasama.
- (mathematics) An unordered pair.
Coordinate terms edit
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
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Participle edit
duad
- past participle of dua