Definitions for tetrad

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Spelling: [te-trad]
IPA: /ˈtɛ træd/

Tetrad is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in tetrad (adertt).

Definitions for tetrad

noun

  1. a group of four.
  2. the number four.
  3. Cell Biology. a group of four chromatids formed by synapsis at the beginning of meiosis.
  4. Chemistry. a tetravalent or quadrivalent element, atom, or group.

Origin of tetrad

1645-55; Greek tetrad- (stem of tetrás) group of four

Examples for tetrad

They are aborting members of the tetrad, and appear to have been used as food by the other spores.

The elements of symmetry are a tetrad axis with a plane perpendicular to it, and a centre of symmetry.

Such an axis of symmetry is known as a tetrad axis of symmetry.

They are parallel to the edges of the cube, and in the different classes coincide either with tetrad or dyad axes of symmetry.

Here there are two pairs of vertical planes of symmetry intersecting in the tetrad axis.

If the second cell division plane is formed at right angles to the first, a cell surface or tetrad is formed.

Having sent for that Brhman, he learnt from him a tetrad of gths.

The four cocci which result from a single division may remain together, giving the tetracoccus or tetrad grouping.

There are five axes of symmetry, one tetrad and two pairs of dyad, each perpendicular to a plane of symmetry.

The tetrad for the perfect figure—the cube, length, depth, and width.

Word Value for tetrad
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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