Dyad

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Dyad may refer to:

  • Dyad (biology), a pair of sister chromatids occurring in prophase I of meiosis; may also be used to describe protein morphology
  • Dyad (Greek philosophy), Greek philosophers' principle of "twoness" or "otherness"
  • Dyad (music), a set of two notes or pitches
  • Dyad (sociology), mostly refers to pairs of individuals such as couples, co-authors, twins, partners in crime, etc.
  • Dyad pedagogy, in education
  • Dyad, in engineering kinematics, a linkage in a planar mechanism that has two possible assembly modes
  • Dyad, in obstetrics, the pregnant mother and fetus
  • Dyadic tensor, in mathematics

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