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Trio plus one
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tetrad
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The tetrad is the four spores of a yeast , other Ascomycota or Chlamydomonas produced after meiosis. After parent haploids mate, they produce diploids. Under appropriate environmental conditions, diploids sporulate and undergo meiosis. The meiotic products, ...
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n. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four , 4 , IV , quatern , quaternion , quaternary , quaternity , quartet , quadruplet , foursome , Little Joe ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Tetrad \Tet"rad\, n. [L. tetras, -adis, Gr. ?, ?: cf. F. t['e]trade.] The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion. (Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.
Wiktionary
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n. 1 A group of four things. 2 (context cartography English) A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres. 3 (context chemistry English) A tetravalent atom or radical. 4 (context biology English) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a ...
Usage examples of tetrad.
It might be suggested that a dyad is that thing--or rather what is observed upon that thing--which has two powers combined, a compound thing related to a unity: or numbers might be what the Pythagoreans seem to hold them in their symbolic system in which Justice, for example, is a Tetrad: but this is rather to add the number, a number of manifold unity like the decad, to the multiplicity of the thing which yet is one thing.
Loguisse nodded, then warned Shareem that they had better deal with Kell soon, since he was making considerable progress among the Stayers, turning them against Aleytys, and his converts were trying to pressure the Tetrad to revoke her acceptance.
But since qinks only flew the mating dance in tetrads, two of them were always keeping an eye on the sky ahead at all times.
So, in a cycle or two, the zotl would be back in the tetrad vector field and more aggressive than ever.