Dyad
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Dyad may refer to:
- Dyad (biology), a pair of sister chromatids occurring in prophase I of meiosis; may also be used to describe protein morphology
- Dyad (Greek philosophy), Greek philosophers' principle of "twoness" or "otherness"
- Dyad (music)Dyad (music)In music, a dyad is a set of two notes or pitches. Although most chords have three or more notes, in certain contexts a dyad may be considered to be a chord. The most common two-note chord is made from the interval of a perfect fifth, which may be suggestive of music of the Medieval or Renaissance...
, a set of two notes or pitches - Dyad (sociology)Dyad (sociology)A dyad in sociology is a noun used to describe a group of two people. "Dyadic" is an adjective used to describe this type of communication/interaction. A dyad is the smallest possible social group....
, mostly refers to pairs of individuals such as couples, co-authors, twins, partners in crime, etc. - Dyad pedagogyDyad pedagogyDyad pedagogy is a goal-directed teaching method. Students are randomly assigned into dyads and work together on inquiry-type problems. The educational method was developed by Dr. Lloyd Sherman, a professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City during the 1990s....
, in education - Dyad, in engineering kinematicsKinematicsKinematics is the branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of bodies and systems without consideration of the forces that cause the motion....
, a linkage in a planar mechanism that has two possible assembly modes - Dyad, in obstetricsObstetricsObstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
, the pregnant mother and fetus - Dyadic tensorDyadic tensorIn multilinear algebra, a dyadic is a second rank tensor written in a special notation, formed by juxtaposing pairs of vectors, along with a notation for manipulating such expressions analogous to the rules for matrix algebra....
, in mathematics