different between triad vs subdominant
triad
English
Etymology
From Latin triad-, stem of trias (“three, triad”), from Ancient Greek ????? (triás).
Sense 3 (“branch of a Chinese underground criminal society”) is due to the word being applied by the British authorities to underground society in Hong Kong based on the geometry of the Chinese character.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?a?.æd/
Noun
triad (plural triads)
- A grouping of three.
- Synonyms: threesome, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
- A word of three syllables.
- Synonym: trisyllable
- A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
- (electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
- (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
Coordinate terms
- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
- (word of four syllables): quaternion
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mafia
- tong
- yakuza
Further reading
- triad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- drait, iTard
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subdominant
English
Etymology
From sub- +? dominant.
Noun
subdominant (plural subdominants)
- (music) The fourth tone of a scale.
- (music) The triad built on the subdominant tone.
Related terms
- subdominance
Translations
subdominant From the web:
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