Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Twofold.
- adjective Of or relating to a dyad.
- noun The sum of a finite number of dyads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to the number two, or to a dyad; consisting of two parts or elements: as, a dyadic metal.
- In Gr. pros.:
- Comprising two different rhythms or meters: as, a dyadic epiploce.
- Consisting of pericopes, or groups of systems each of which contains two unlike systems: as, a dyadic poem.
- Also dyad, duadic.
- noun In mathematics, a sum of dyads.
- noun The science of reckoning with a system of numerals in which the ratio of values of successive places is two.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.
- adjective the same as binary arithmetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to the number
two ; of twoparts orelements .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a dyad or based on two
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Examples
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This results in a division of the input image into many rectangular pieces, similar to those shown, organized into a data structure called a dyadic tree.
NYT > Global Home 2011
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Nonetheless, there is something dyadic about these two.
Brit Wit 2009
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Nonetheless, there is something dyadic about these two.
Brit Wit 2009
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What happens at the dyadic level, between mother and infant, ultimately affects the very nature and survival of the larger social group.
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What happens at the dyadic level, between mother and infant, ultimately affects the very nature and survival of the larger social group.
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Often Bronte's most powerful scenes are dyadic: two pictures appear in the mind, bang, bang, two acts of imagistic assertion, with the second simply erasing or subtracting the first.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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Often Bronte's most powerful scenes are dyadic: two pictures appear in the mind, bang, bang, two acts of imagistic assertion, with the second simply erasing or subtracting the first.
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The resulting intensification of economic relations between Kabul and Peshawar was colonially inspired and the new dyadic link was achieved through the textual and territorial reconfiguration of kuchi commercial activities and movements in relation to and in between both markets.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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However, today, as always, there is more complexity to the relationship between these three cities than any single dyadic market connection can explain.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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It included communications training, sensory awareness, massage, meditation, guided imagery, dreamwork, dream communities, aggression release and assertiveness training, and dyadic encounters, as well as many types of group work to help them become sensitive to the needs of others.
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What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
April 25, 2017