单词 | dyad |
释义 | dy·ad (dīăd′, -əd) n. 1. Two individuals or units regarded as a pair: the mother-daughter dyad. 2. Biology One pair of homologous chromosomes resulting from the division of a tetrad during meiosis. 3. Mathematics a. A function that draws a correspondence from any vector u to the vector (v·u)w and is denoted vw, where v and w are a fixed pair of vectors and v·u is the scalar product of v and u. For example, if v = (2,3,1), w = (0,-1,4), and u = (a,b,c), then the dyad vw draws a correspondence from u to (2a + 3b + c)w. b. A tensor formed from a vector in a vector space and a linear functional on that vector space. adj. Made up of two units. [From Greek duas, duad-, from duo, two; see dwo- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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