noun. A group of three.

noun. A chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth.

noun. A section of a Pindaric ode consisting of the strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

noun. A union or conjunction of three; a group or class of three persons or things closely related; a trinity.

noun. In chem., an element or radical which will combine with three atoms of a monad element or radical; a trivalent element or radical.

noun. In music, a chord of three tones, including a given tone with its major or minor third and its perfect, augmented, or diminished fifth. A triad is named from the given tone or root: as, triad of G; dominant triad. See chord, 4. Also trias.

noun. In Welsh lit., a form of composition characterized by the arrangement of the contents in groups of three.

noun. In mythology, an intimate association of three kindred or correlated deities, sometimes considered as having the relationship of father, mother, and child, and forming a characteristic conception in some religious systems, as that of ancient Egypt.

noun. In morphology, a tertiary unit of organization resulting; from integration of an aggregate of dyads. See dyad, 3.

noun. An indeterminate product of three vectors.

noun. plural See the Triad Society.

noun. A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity.

noun. undefined

noun. A chord of three notes.

noun. The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.

noun. An element or radical whose valence is three.

noun. poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together.

noun. See Trimurti.

noun. A grouping of three.

noun. A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

noun. on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

noun. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

noun. three people considered as a unit

noun. a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones

noun. a set of three similar things considered as a unit

noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

"Thus _e. g._, the large I shows that the triad on the first tone (in major) is a _major triad_, the small II shows that the triad on the second tone is minor, etc."

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