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Dyad vs Duality - What's the difference?

dyad | duality |

As nouns the difference between dyad and duality

is that dyad is a set of two elements treated as one; a pair while duality is a classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.

dyad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1908, author=W. D. Ross, title=, by=Aristotle
  • , passage=... positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small, instead of treating the infinite as one, is peculiar to him; ...}}
  • (music) any set of two different pitch classes.
  • A pair of things standing in particular relation; dyadic relation.
  • * "For each individual in a specific dyad (i.e., mother-offspring, offspring-father, sibling-sibling),..." Debra Lieberman, John Tooby, and Leda Cosmides - The evolution of human incest avoidance mechanisms: an evolutionary psychological approach , p. 20
  • (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.
  • Derived terms

    * dyadic

    See also

    * monad * pair * triad * interval * trichord * hexachord * tetrachord

    Anagrams

    * *

    duality

    English

    Noun

    (dualities)
  • A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
  • (projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
  • (mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
  • Synonyms

    * dichotomy

    Derived terms

    * wave-particle duality