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Definition of Pentads
1. pentad [n] - See also: pentad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentads
Literary usage of Pentads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1869)
"... ic., are also retained in this group, and pentads aa such, as far as elements
are concerned, are not recognised ; neither erbium nor terbium ranks as an ..."
2. A Treatise on Harmony: With Exercises by Joseph Humfrey Anger (1912)
"The superior pentads comprise the ordinate tonal material of the minor mode; the
superior and the inferior together comprise the ordinate tonal material of ..."
3. The School Chemistry: A New Text-book for High Schools and Academies by Elroy McKendree Avery (1904)
"THE FIFTH GROUP — pentads. 344. The Nitrogen Family. —This family consists of
nitrogen, vanadium, columbium, praseodymium (see ..."
4. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"That these six pentads were further divided into two lots seems likely from the
employment of such phrases as mid-month (mid-Thorri, mid-Goi), ..."
5. The Metaphysics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1857)
"As, for instance, in the decade itself are involved ten monads, and the decade
is composed both of these and of two pentads. Since, however, the decade ..."
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