different between yad vs dyad

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hebrew ??? (yád, “hand”)

Noun

yad (plural yads or yadim)

1. (Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.

Etymology 2

From the Tifinagh alphabet.

Noun

yad

1. The letter ? in the Tifinagh alphabet.

Anagrams

• Day, d'ya, day, ? Day

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?d]

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *y?t (“alien, foreign, unfamiliar”). Cognate with Bashkir ?? (yat), Kazakh ??? (jat),Uzbek yot (“alien, foreign”), Turkmen ýat etc.

Adjective

yad (comparative daha yad, superlative ?n yad)

1. alien, strange, foreign
2. unfamiliar

   Synonym: özg?

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“extraterrestrial”)

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. stranger

   Synonym: özg?

Declension

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“alien”)

Etymology 2

From Persian ???? (yâd).

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. memory

Declension

Derived terms

• yadda? (“memory”)
• yadda qalmaq (“to remember”)
• yadda saxlamaq (“to remember”)
• yaddan ç?xmaq (“to forget”)
• yada dü?m?k (“to come to mind”)
• yada salmaq (“to remind”)

Related terms

• yadigar (“memento”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

yad

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of ya (“which (relative)”)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from non-rhotic English yard.

Noun

yad (nominative plural yads)

1. yard

Declension

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (duás), ????- (duád-) from ??? (dúo, “two”), from Proto-Indo-European *duwó, *duwéh? (*dwóh?). The mathematics sense was coined by Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?.æd/
• Rhymes: -a?æd

Noun

dyad (plural dyads)

1. A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.

   Synonyms: couple, duad; see also Thesaurus:duo
2. (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; dyadic relationship.
   • "For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling),..." Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides - The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach, p. 20
3. (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
4. (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
5. (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
6. (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
7. (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
8. (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.

Coordinate terms

• (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad

Derived terms

• dyadic
• dyadwise
• dyadically
• dyadism
• pseudodyad

Translations

See also

• interval
• trichord
• hexachord
• tetrachord

References

Anagrams

• Addy, D-Day, Dady, addy