TRIAD
What does "TRIAD" mean?
A group or set of three related people or things.
Meanings
- Any group of three connected persons or things. The play's central triad of brothers each wants the same throne.
- A chord of three notes, built of a root, third, and fifth. She voiced the C major triad and let it ring across the empty hall. technical
- A Chinese secret society or criminal organization. Police linked the smuggling route to a Hong Kong triad.
Did you know?
- The reason a major chord sounds so resolved is arithmetic: in just intonation its three pitches vibrate in the tidy ratio 4:5:6.
Word origin
From Late Latin 'trias', and its stem 'triad-', from Greek 'trias', the number three, from 'treis', three.
Remember it
TRIAD starts with TRI, the prefix for three - a triad is always exactly three.
A little poem
Three notes, struck as one,
no single string says enough -
the chord needs all three.
haiku
Wordplay
- A musician and a mobster walked into a bar; both said they ran a triad, and neither was lying.
What it teaches
Three points fix a plane: some truths only stand once a third thing joins the pair.
Quick facts
What does TRIAD mean?
A group or set of three related people or things.
Is TRIAD a valid word?
Yes — TRIAD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TRIAD?
TRIAD has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does TRIAD come from?
From Late Latin 'trias', and its stem 'triad-', from Greek 'trias', the number three, from 'treis', three.
What can TRIAD teach us?
Three points fix a plane: some truths only stand once a third thing joins the pair.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.