1. Two individuals or units regarded as a pair: the mother-daughter dyad.2.Biology One pair of homologous chromosomes resulting from the division of a tetrad during meiosis. 3.Chemistry A divalent atom or radical. 4.Mathematicsa. A function that draws a correspondence from any vector u to the vector (v·u)w and is denoted vw, where v and w are a fixed pair of vectors and v·u is the scalar product of v and u. For example, if v = (2,3,1), w = (0,-1,4), and u = (a,b,c), then the dyad vw draws a correspondence from u to (2a + 3b + c)w. b. A tensor formed from a vector in a vector space and a linear functional on that vector space.
ADJECTIVE:
Made up of two units.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek duas, duad-, from duo, two. See dwo- in Appendix I.
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