dyad

noun

dy·ad ˈdī-ˌad

-əd

Synonyms of dyad next

: pair

specifically, sociology : two individuals (such as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship

genetics : a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous (see homologous sense 1a(2)) members of a tetrad

mathematics : an operator (see operator sense 3a) indicated by writing the symbols of two vectors (see vector entry 1 sense 1a) without a dot or cross between

In the equation D = AB, AB is a dyad.

dyadic

dī-ˈa-dik

adjective

dyadically

dī-ˈa-di-k(ə-)lē

adverb

Example Sentences

the book examines the doctor-patient dyad from several perspectives

Recent Examples on the Web Regardless of dyad type, participants who were touched consumed more alcohol than participants who were not touched. —

Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2012 Because the data for each pair are interdependent, the data were analyzed at the level of the dyad. —

Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2012 Interpersonal gazing in dyads, when the two individuals in the dyad stare at each other in the eyes, is investigated in 20 healthy young individuals at low illumination for 10-min. —

Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015 Sometimes the other half of a Pecknoldian dyad isn’t even another person but a different version of the speaker himself. —

Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022 In the later songs, the dyad is more abstractly the speaker and himself, and the lyrics take on a more rhetorical resonance. —

Brandon Taylor, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022 Parenthood is, to me, a dyad that creates the most complex and fascinating spectrum of emotion in a person’s life. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Oct. 2022 The implosion of another important health care dyad — clinicians and C-suite administrators — has received much less attention, despite the fact that those relationships are on life support. —

Christine Bechtel, STAT, 28 July 2022 Caregivers and infants are really a dyad—their outcomes and health play into each other’s, Clayton Shuman, a maternal-infant-health researcher at the University of Michigan, told me. —

Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2022 See More

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