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Tetrad   Listen
noun
Tetrad  n.  
1.
The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
2.
(Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.





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"Tetrad" Quotes from Famous Books



... the extremity of the intelligible order; but intellectually and decadically ([Greek: noeros kai dekadikos]), in the intellect of the artificer of the universe; for, according to the Pythagoric Hymn, "Divine number proceeds from the retreats of the undecaying monad, till it arrives at the divine tetrad which produced the mother of all things, the universal recipient, venerable, circularly investing all things with bound, immovable and unwearied, and which is denominated the sacred decad, both by the immortal ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor


Words linked to "Tetrad" :   4, foursome, four, digit, quartet, quatern, quaternion, figure, iv, Little Joe, quaternary, quadruplet


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