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Definition of Pentad
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
Generic synonyms: Digit, Figure
Definition of Pentad
1. n. Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.
2. a. Having the valence of a pentad.
Definition of Pentad
1. Noun. a group or series of five things ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentad
1. a group of five [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pentad
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentad
Literary usage of Pentad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thirty Years' War on Silver: Money Scientifically Treated and Logically by Adolphus Leigh Fitzgerald (1903)
"... the triad, produces the pentad of tender and payer and discharger and measure
and medium ; and these five, the pentad, produce the standard and storer; ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"pentad ELEMENTS. (497) THE typical pentad element, nitrogen, has already been
described : it will only be necessary in this place to con- Miler phosphorus, ..."
3. The Books of the Pentateuch: Their Origin, Contents, and Significance by Frederick Carl Eiselen (1916)
"Fourth Decalogue: Responsibility for Property First pentad — In General, Exod.
22. ... Second pentad — On the Part of Those in Authority, Exod. 23. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(2) On the change of the pentad to the triad nitrogen atom. By S. RUHEMANN, MA,
Gonville and Caius College. (3) On the change of citric acid to pyrrol ..."
5. American Druggist (1885)
"... pentad metals, e. д., nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth ;
iron and manganese. papers—the whole covering 26J pages. ..."
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