English Explanatory Dictionary

dyadic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements.
  2. having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)
  3. binary
  4. Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.
noun
  1. The sum of two or more dyads

Pronunciation

/daɪˈæ.dɪk/ [daɪˈæ.ɾɪk]

Word forms

dyadic more dyadic most dyadic diadic dyadics

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

binary endosex perisex

Related words

monadic triadic polyadic extradyadic variadic

Derived words

dyadically dyadic fraction dyadic operation intradyadic nondyadic

Translations

Finnish: kaksiosainen Finnish: kaksijakoinen Dutch: tweeledig Dutch: dyadisch French: dyadique Galician: diádico Hungarian: diadikus Icelandic: tvíunda- Italian: diadico Japanese: 二項 Portuguese: diádico Spanish: diádico
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