dyad

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Singular
dyad

Plural
dyads

dyad (plural dyads)

  1. A set of two different elements.
    • 1908, W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, translation of original by Aristotle:
      ... positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; ...
  2. (music) any set of two different pitch classes.

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