Definitions for heptads

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heptads hep·tad

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IPA: /ˈhɛp tæd/

Heptads is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in heptads (adehpst).

Definitions for heptads

noun

1. the number seven.
2. a group of seven.
3. Chemistry. an element, atom, or group having a valence of seven.

Origin of heptads

First recorded in 1650-60, heptad is from the Greek word heptad- (stem of heptás). See hepta-, -ad¹

Examples for heptads

But this oddness belongs to other numbers also (pentad, heptad, &c.).

heptad, a term in chemistry to denote an atom that is the equivalent of seven atoms of hydrogen, from hepta, seven.