Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group or series of seven.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum of seven units; the number seven.
- noun In chem., an atom whose equivalence is seven atoms of hydrogen, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or replaced by seven atoms of hydrogen.
- noun In music, in the duodenal system of analysis, a scheme of seven tones, formed by uniting two duodenal cells of four tones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by,
seven monad atoms or radicals. Also used as an adjective.
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- noun a group of seven things
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
Etymologies
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UPDATE: Added 7 to the heptad. posted by Brandon | 12:07 AM
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In particular, the question is whether there is a consistent way of accepting the following heptad: 1. The Father is God.
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I suppose, be admitted by many thoughtful students of God's Word, probably by most who have entered into the mystery of the heptad in
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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Here there is a pause; and with this consummation reached, than which in type and prophecy there can be nothing higher, a new series begins; the heptad falling, as is so constantly the case, into two groups; either of three and four, as in the Lord's Prayer, or of four and three, as here.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The F1 polypeptide of APMV-5 contains heptad repeats at aa positions 134-182 and 455-485, as predicted by the LearnCoil-VMF program, which correspond to the characteristic HRA and HRB heptad repeats that are found in paramyxovirus F proteins and are thought to be important for the conformational changes that lead to membrane fusion
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur S. Samuel et al. 2010
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It centers on heptad children in a diminutive Maine municipality who play the maker of a program of murders in 1958 and again in 1985, when the wheel begins again.
Planet Malaysia 2009
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C-peptide T20 targets the gp41 N-terminal heptad repeat region
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Final Fantasy heptad haw be the prizewinning and memorable FF program in the heritage created by Square Enix to prompt SCE Nihon to become up with a FF heptad manifestation Children PS3 clump which includes a Blu-ray flick of the aforementioned title.
www.awesomeblogs.com 2009
mercurybc commented on the word heptad
if you visit this dictionary http://www.wordsense.eu/eighty/ Persian: for word "eighty" on its translation list , it says : persian (haštâd) , Scottish Gaelic: (new system) ochdad , and for seventy it says on translation list Persian: هفتاد (haftâd) , also on this link http://www.avesta.org/avdict/avdict.htm old persian (avestan) for seventy says : haptâitîm haptâiti seventy , so it seems the origin of that suffix of -ad for "heptad" , to be from old persian
January 14, 2015