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A 3-note major or minor chord
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triad
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triad \Tri"ad\, n. [L. trias, -adis, Gr. ?, ?, fr.?, ?, three: cf. F. triade. See Three , and cf. Trias , Trio .] A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities. (Mus.) A chord of three notes. The common chord, ...
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" Triad " is a song written by David Crosby in 1967 about a ménage à trois , a subject perfectly in keeping with the " free love " hippie philosophies of the day. The song was written while Crosby was a member of the rock band The Byrds , who were at that ...
Usage examples of triad.
He had to substitute an arpeggiated chord for the triad, then make do with just the top note of the double glissando.
And any group larger than three will soon enough degenerate into sub-groups of diads and triads.
The union of the Monad and Duad produces the Triad, signifying the world formed by the creative principle out of matter.
Quantity of Movement--in the form of number, dyad, triad, decade, or in the form of extent apprehended in what we may call the amount of the Movement: but, the idea of Time we have not.
Granted, then, that there exist, apart from things, a unity absolute and a decad absolute in other words, that the Intellectual beings, together with their characteristic essence have also their order, Henads, Dyads, Triads, what is the nature of these numerical entities and how does it come into being?
A binder bound his triad the way Louarn had bound those children, the Girdlers, the bonefolk, the way he bound everyone in this chamber.
With inheld breaths the company watched as stone after stone was set into place, some, when the pendulum refused to move on, capping two to form miniature triad dolmen to satisfy it.
The cosmogonies of the Delta: Sibu and Nait, Osiris and Isis, SU and Nephthys--Heliopolis and its theological schools: Ra, his identification with Horus, his dual nature, and the conception of Atumu--The Heliopolitan Enneads: formation of the Great Ennead--Thot and the Hermopolitan Ennead: creation by articulate words and by voice alone--Diffusion of the Enneads: their connection with the local triads, the god One and the god Eight--The one and only gods.
Brotherhood and all of Shola look to your Triad as the public face of our Order.
They wielded less power than their full goblin counterparts, but were useful for their ability to pass undetected by Tylwyth Teg Gaelan triads.
What class of creatures, he asked them, included both Tetrachord and Triad?
Then Tetrachord and Triad both turned to him and gave him an entirely different word.
Then Tetrachord, still with a couple of arms around Triad, turned to his electronic zither and twisted some frets.
Triad and Tetrachord were off on one of their incomprehensible errands.
Lately Tetrachord and Triad had been moving equipment and cages elsewhere.