Dyadic describes the interaction between two things, and may refer to: *

Dyad (sociology) In sociology, a dyad is a group of two people, the smallest possible social group. As an adjective, "dyadic" describes their interaction.Macionis, John J., and Linda Marie Gerber. Sociology. 7th ed. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. 153-54. ...

, interaction between a pair of individuals **The dyadic variation of

democratic peace theory Proponents of democratic peace theory argue that both electoral and republican forms of democracy are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies. Different advocates of this theory suggest that several factors ar ...

*Dyadic counterpoint, the voice-against-voice conception of

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chord ...

*People who are not intersex, that is,

endosex An ''endosex'' person is someone whose innate sex characteristics fit normative medical ideas for female or male bodies. The word ''endosex'' is an antonym of ''intersex''. Etymology and meaning The prefix '' endo-'' comes from the Ancient Gre ...

* Dyadic kinship terms, kinship terms that express the relationship between individuals as they relate one to the other

Mathematics

*Dyadic relation, synonym for

binary relation In mathematics, a binary relation associates some elements of one Set (mathematics), set called the ''domain'' with some elements of another set called the ''codomain''. Precisely, a binary relation over sets X and Y is a set of ordered pairs ...

*Dyadic function, a function having an

arity In logic, mathematics, and computer science, arity () is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation. In mathematics, arity may also be called rank, but this word can have many other meanings. In logic and ...

of two (i.e. having two arguments) *Dyadic decomposition, a concept in Littlewood–Paley theory * Dyadic distribution, a type of probability distribution *

Dyadic rational In mathematics, a dyadic rational or binary rational is a number that can be expressed as a fraction whose denominator is a power of two. For example, 1/2, 3/2, and 3/8 are dyadic rationals, but 1/3 is not. These numbers are important in computer ...

, a rational number whose denominator is a power of 2 *

Dyadic transformation The dyadic transformation (also known as the dyadic map, bit shift map, 2''x'' mod 1 map, Bernoulli map, doubling map or sawtooth map) is the mapping (i.e., recurrence relation) : T: , 1) \to , 1)^\infty : x \mapsto (x_0, x_1, x_2, ...

, an iterated transformation of the unit interval *Dyadics, second-order tensors

Mathematics

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