Meaning

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

    Having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)

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

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

    (obsolete)Binary

More definitions
  • of or relating to a dyad or based on two

Translations

4 languages

Origin

From dyad + -ic. The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gib

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

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Forms

more dyadic, most dyadic
Comparativemore dyadic Lesson
Superlativemost dyadic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
arity, adicity, rank:binary

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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