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dyadic

adj
/daɪˈæ.dɪk/US

Etymology

From dyad + -ic. The mathematics sense was coined by Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.

  1. derived from *duwó✻
  2. borrowed from δυάς
  3. formed as dyadic — “dyad + -ic”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a dyad, the number two

    Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements.

  2. Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics,…

    Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.

    • Although dyadic bodies may be more common, they are no more or less "normal" than intersex bodies.

  3. The sum of two or more dyads

The neighborhood

Derived

dyadically, dyadic fraction, dyadic operation, intradyadic, nondyadic

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA