dyadic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
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.
Base: dyad
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more dyadic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dyadic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: diadic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dyadics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements.
pos: adj
examples: 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 only to groups of two, three or more objects. We cannot e.g. sensibly say 'x is greater than', but only 'x is greater than y'. Nor can we say 'x is between', or even 'x is between y', but only 'x is between y and z'. We shall say that an expression such as 'greater than' or 'between' stands not for a property of an individual, but for a relation between individuals. Since 'greater than' stands for a relation between two individuals, we shall say that the relation in question is a dyadic or a two-place relation. Similarly, 'between' stands for a triadic or three-place relation; and we can also have four-place, five-place, etc., relations. . . . A dyadic relation holds not simply between a pair of objects, but between those objects in a certain order. It is one thing to say that Bill is father of Tom, and another thing to say that Tom is father of Bill. . . . There are, it is true, certain dyadic relations whose direction is unimportant, in the sense that whenever they hold between x and y, they also hold between y and x; 'parallel to' and 'cousin of' are examples.
gloss: Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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 far nothing seems to be gained but simplicity and there is a grievous loss of brevity. But in the huge numbers of the mathematicians this inconvenience was to fall away and the complex operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, were to sink into mere transcription.
gloss: Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.
pos: adj
examples: Although dyadic bodies may be more common, they are no more or less "normal" than intersex bodies.
gloss: The sum of two or more dyads
pos: noun
Related words: monadic
triadic
polyadic
extradyadic
variadic
Derived words: dyadically
dyadic fraction
dyadic operation
intradyadic
nondyadic
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kaksiosainen
lang: Finnish
word: kaksijakoinen
lang: Dutch
word: tweeledig
lang: Dutch
word: dyadisch
lang: French
word: dyadique
lang: Galician
word: diádico
lang: Hungarian
word: diadikus
lang: Icelandic
word: tvíunda-
lang: Italian
word: diadico
lang: Japanese
word: 二項
roman: ni-kō
lang: Portuguese
word: diádico
lang: Spanish
word: diádico