Hexad ('group of 6') or hexade may refer to:
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Hexad (musical formation)
A sextet (or hexad) is a formation containing exactly six members. The former term is commonly associated with vocal ensembles (e.g. The King's Singers, Affabre Concinui) or musical instrument groups, but can be applied to any situation where six ...
, or sextet
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Hexad (chord)
In music, a hexachord (also hexachordon) is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale (hexatonic or hexad) or tone row. The term was adopted in this sense during the Middle Ages and adapted in the 20th century in Milton Babbitt's serial theory ...
, a six-note series
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Hexad (computing)
In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information ar ...
, a 6-bit group
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Sextet (disambiguation)
A sextet is a group of six people working together, usually musicians.
Sextet may also refer to:
* Sextet (Penderecki), a 2000 chamber music composition by Krzysztof Penderecki
* Sextet (Poulenc), a 1931/32 chamber music composition by Francis Po ...
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Pentad (disambiguation)
Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to:
* Pentad (chord), a five-note chord
* Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group
*a division of the solar term
*Dramatistic pentad, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation
* Medical pentad, ...
('group of 5')
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Heptad (disambiguation)
Heptad ('group of 7') or heptade may refer to:
* Heptad (chord), heptachord in music (set)
* Heptad (computing), a group of 7 bits in computing
*Heptad repeat, a structural motif in proteins
*''L'Heptade
''L'Heptade'' is the third and final albu ...
('group of 7')
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