dyadic

Pronunciation: /daɪˈæ.dɪk/

The English word “dyadic” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)
binary
Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.

noun

The sum of two or more dyads

Etymology

From dyad + -ic. The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.

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