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noun

Triad n.

A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.

(Mus.)

(a)

A chord of three notes.

(b)

The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.

(Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three.

Triads of the Welsh bards, poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together.

Hindu triad. See Trimurti.

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"Triad" Quotes from Famous Books

... "linked the hands that made them free." It is also a popular belief that they slumber in a rocky cavern near the spot, and that they will arise and come forth when the liberties of Switzerland are in danger. She stands at present greatly in need of a new triad to ...

— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor

... dwelt upon some of the special directions in which Thucydides and Plato can be of help to us. Let us now turn briefly to the third of the great triad. Aristotle is, of course, the most systematic thinker of the three: and it is just for that very reason that the two elements already noted in Greek political thought, the local and ephemeral and the universal, are most closely interwoven and most baffling ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... person of the Hindu triad, and the most celebrated and popular of all the Indian deities. He is the personification of the preserving power, and became incarnate in nine different forms, for the preservation of mankind in various emergencies. Before the creation of the universe, and after its temporary ...

— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... the whole course of life. The hidden meaning of the passage from Manu, where we read that "he who slays a Brahman enters into the body of a dog, a bear, an ass, a camel, &c.," does not apply to the human Ego, but only to the atoms of his body, i.e., to the lower triad[90] and its fluidic emanations, as H. P. ...

— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... THREE, or the triad, however, since everything was composed of three substances, contained the most sublime mysteries, which Jurgen duly communicated. We must remember, he pointed out, that Zeus carried a TRIPLE thunderbolt, and Poseidon a TRIDENT, whereas Ades was guarded by a dog with THREE heads: ...

— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell

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