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noun
Tetrad  n.  
1.
The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
2.
(Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.





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"Tetrad" Quotes from Famous Books



... proceeds, but it further symbolised the First Principle, the origin of all. The duad represented the line, as being bounded by two points or monads. The triad stood for surface as length and width. The tetrad for the perfect figure, the cube, length, depth, and width. The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection: hence the term decas, or denarius, was used summarily for the whole ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 • Various
... transitoriness and limitation of the fruits of mere works—forms a necessary antecedent to the systematic enquiry into Brahman. Moreover the discrimination of permanent and non-permanent things, &c. (i.e. the tetrad of 'means' mentioned above, p. 11) cannot be accomplished without the study of the Mmms; for unless we ascertain all the distinctions of fruits of works, means, modes of procedure and qualification (on the part of the agent) ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut


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