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UK
/tɹˈaɪæd/
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[ US /ˈtɹaɪˌæd/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹaɪˌæd/ ]
NOUN
- a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- three people considered as a unit
How To Use triad In A Sentence
- Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.
- It is a cross plot of industrial R&D spending on the x-axis and so-called triadic patents on the y-axis. Innovation will get the economy moving
- It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition.
- They yield, on the hyper level, two triads, a duad, and a unit. Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements
- Where there is no figure under a note, the convention is that this denotes the most common chord, which Mr Protheroe describes as a root-position chord; i.e a triad with a root note, the third above and the fifth above.
- She is also a psychotherapist in San Francisco who works with couples, triads and other forms of alternative families.
- In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly: Book summary
- Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling.
- Take prompt and professional action in response to intelligence and reports of triad - related activity and crime.
- The most prevalent is the "thought, word, and deed" motif, but I've also found what appear to be alliterating triads (of anatomical features, interestingly) in at least one OE prayer. Numbers everywhere