dyadic
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dyadic
- /daɪˈæ.dɪk/ US
- [daɪˈæ.ɾɪk] US
Rhymes with -ædɪk
Where it comes from
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.
adjective more dyadic · most dyadic · diadic
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having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)
Up to now, all the expressions we have called predicates have stood for properties which it makes sense to attribute to a single individual. Such predicates are known as monadic, or one-place, predicates. There are, however, many expressions which we cannot meaningfully apply to single objects, but
Similar: binary
- binary The dyadic arithmetic proposes to express all numbers by two characters, 1 and 0. The value of 1 is to double at every remove into a preceding column. Thus, 1 is represented by 1, 2 by 10, 4 by 100, and 8 by 1000; 3 is represented by 11, 5 by 101, 6 by 110, 7 by 111, 9 by 1001, and 10 by 1010. Thus
- 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.
noun dyadics
- The sum of two or more dyads
Translations
Talk about this word "dyadic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dyadic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dyadic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dyadic "dyadic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dyadic.Cite this
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