dyad

Mane (Îngilîzî)

1. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
2. Two persons in an ongoing relationship; dyadic relationship.
3. The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
4. Any set of two different pitch classes.
5. An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
6. A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
7. A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
8. A tensor of order two and rank one.

Sînonîm

duo

couple

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duet

pair

twins

twosome

duad

span

brace

twain

2

distich

double

yoke

diad

couplet

divalent element

binary

deuce

dyadic

frankfurter

pairs

two

wienerwurst

Wiener

Jack and Jill

bivalent element

banger

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/ˈdaɪ.æd/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

From Ancient Greek δυάς (duás), δυάδ- (duád-) from δύο (dúo, “two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh₃ (*dwóh₁). The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.