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Definition of Octads
1. octad [n] - See also: octad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octads
Literary usage of Octads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kummer's Quartic Surface by Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson, Henry Frederick Baker (1905)
"PAIRS AND octads. There are fifteen subgroups of two members each. Any one of
these corresponds to a pair of nodes of which one is (dd) and gives rise to a ..."
2. The Philosophy of Arithmetic: Exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory by John Leslie (1820)
"... which proceeds by successive eights or octads, the original number would leave
six counters on the first bar, and throw ten to the next; ..."
3. The Works of Archimedes by Archimedes (1897)
"octads. Consider the series of terms in continued proportion of which the first
is 1 and ... We can, in the same way, place any number of octads. Theorem. ..."
4. Quaternions and Projective Geometry by Charles Jasper Joly (1903)
"... of octads, and its order is consequently 24, or six times that of the Jacobian,
because the quartic cuts it in a hexad for every point of intersection ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... heptads, and octads, designating valencies of three, four, five, six, seven,
and eight respectively. ..."
6. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"4), indicating that the chromosomes of the first maturation spindle are really
di-tetrads, or octads, due to the presence of a ..."
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