Added 10 October 2026
dyadic
/daɪˈæ.dɪk/ adjective
In Latin: none, coined in 1884 Coined: 1884, by Josiah Willard Gibbs Wiktionary
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- Pertaining to a dyad, the number two; of two parts or elements. having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands) binary
- having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands)
- Pertaining to the physical sex of a person who is exactly male or female in genetics, anatomy and hormone levels; not intersex.
noun
Origin
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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