Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a triad; constituting or consisting of a triad or trinity.
- In chem., trivalent; triatomic.
- In ancient prosody:
- Comprising three different rhythms or meters: as, the triadic epiploce.
- Consisting of pericopes, or groups of systems, each of which contains three unlike systems: as, a triadic poem.
- In the Gr. Ch., addressed to or in honor of the Trinity: as, a triadic canon.
- noun A sum of products of three vectors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Having the characteristics of a triad.
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- adjective of or relating to a
triad - adjective obsolete
trivalent - adjective translation studies describing
interpreting that involves three parties, i.e., the twoclients and theinterpreter
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Examples
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It is a cross plot of industrial R&D spending on the x-axis and so-called triadic patents on the y-axis.
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On the other hand, studies show that in so called "triadic" encounters, mom or dad sometimes becomes an object in the room, and the conversation is monopolized by the adult child, or the doc talks to son or daughter, inadvertently ignoring the patient.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com M.D. Mark Lachs 2010
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It investigates the study of transference of information around complex porous boundaries of trans-ecological continuum -- shortly, triadic logic is concerned with the expression of universal properties within regional localities.
Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012
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In a phenomenon called "triadic closure," people tend to befriend the friends of their friends -- and this is very satisfying.
Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Columbian mathematician and philosopher Fernando Zalamea's work on transient ecologies in a context of Latin American socio-politics, is looking at triadic logic proposed by logician Charles Pierce.
Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012
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The most compelling evidence is the count of "triadic" patent filings or grants, where an application is filed with or patent granted by all three offices for the same innovation.
Chinese Innovation Is a Paper Tiger Anil K. Gupta 2011
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In a phenomenon called "triadic closure," people tend to befriend the friends of their friends -- and this is very satisfying.
Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness Gretchen Rubin 2010
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Getty Images/Huntstock The most compelling evidence is the count of "triadic" patent filings or grants, where an application is filed with or patent granted by all three offices for the same innovation.
China as an Innovation Center? Not So Fast Anil K. Gupta 2011
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In a phenomenon called "triadic closure," people tend to befriend the friends of their friends -- and this is very satisfying.
Gretchen Rubin: The Value of Connecting With Others for True Happiness Gretchen Rubin 2010
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In the background, three singers at a time lay down text in slow, distant, near-triadic progressions, while the others declaim the text in fragmented bursts.
Magna Carter (5): Role modeling Matthew Guerrieri 2008
mollusque commented on the word triadic
. . . the triadic beginning of π, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 3
September 29, 2008