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Webster 1913 Edition
Tetrad
Tet′rad
,Noun.
[L.
tetras
, -adis
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK]: cf. F. tétrade
.] 1.
The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
2.
(Chem.)
A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical;
as, carbon is a
. tetrad
Webster 1828 Edition
Tetrad
TET'RAD
,Noun.
Definition 2024
tetrad
tetrad
English
Noun
tetrad (plural tetrads)
- A group of four things.
- (cartography) A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
- 2010, Richard Mabey, Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think about Nature, London: Profile Books, ISBN 978-1-84668-076-2:
- They took figures for the abundance of invasive weeds mapped according to the normal grid unit of the 'hectad', or 10 × 10 km square, and then looked at how abundant these species were mapped at a much finer scale – in 'tetrads', or 2 × 2 km squares, inside these hectads.
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- (chemistry) A tetravalent atom or radical.
- (biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
- (biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.