tetrad
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tetrad (plural tetrads)
- A group of four things.
- Synonyms: foursome, quartet, Thesaurus:quartet
- (biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
- (biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
- (cartography) A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
- (chemistry) A tetravalent atom or radical.
- (mathematics) A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.
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