1
: pair
specifically, sociology
: two individuals (such as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
2
genetics
: a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous (see homologous sense 1a(2)) members of a tetrad
3
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.
Examples of dyad in a Sentence
the book examines the doctor-patient dyad from several perspectives
Recent Examples on the Web
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.
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015
Eros refutes this optimism: sometimes people choose to lock themselves into dyads of exploitative misery.
—Agnes Callard, Harper's Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
Some similar relationships flower into productive, loving dyads.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
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
Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2015
Eros refutes this optimism: sometimes people choose to lock themselves into dyads of exploitative misery.
—Agnes Callard, Harper's Magazine, 7 Feb. 2022
Some similar relationships flower into productive, loving dyads.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
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
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dyad
noun
dy·ad
1
: two individuals (as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
2
: a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous members of a tetrad
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