Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient prosody: Comprising four different rhythms or moters: as, the tetradic epiploce.
- Consisting of pericopes, or groups of systems each of which contains four unlike systems: as, a tetradic poem.
- Of or pertaining to a tetrad. Also
tetratomic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
tetrad . - adjective of a shape Having four-fold
symmetry ; used especially of the digits 0, 1 and 8.
Etymologies
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Examples
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How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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There are several different kinds of color schemes but these are the 6 classics. monochromatic analogous complementary split complementary triadic tetradic
doggdot.us 2009
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How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge’s fear.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge’s fear.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge’s fear.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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