dyad

One entry found for dyad.

Main Entry: dy·ad
Pronunciation: 'dI-"ad, -&d
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin dyad-, dyas, from Greek, from dyo
1 : PAIR; specifically : two individuals (as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
2 : a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous members of a tetrad
3 : a mathematical operator indicated by writing the symbols of two vectors without a dot or cross between (as AB)
- dy·ad·ic /dI-'a-dik/ adjective
- dy·ad·i·cal·ly /-di-k(&-)lE/ adverb