triad
三合会,黑社会,三合院,黑社会组织
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Definitions
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- : a group of three, especially of three closely related persons or things.
- : Chemistry. an element, atom, or group having a valence of three.Compare monad, dyad. a group of three closely related compounds or elements, as isomers or halides.
- : Music. a chord of three tones, especially one consisting of a given tone with its major or minor third and its perfect, augmented, or diminished fifth.
- : Military. the three categories of strategic-nuclear-weapons delivery systems: bombers, land-based missiles, and missile-firing submarines.
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Examples
There was a triad of characteristics identifying this as a substantial tornado on the ground.
If you broaden the causal diagram, as with the cumulative triad risk score, you get a more meaningful assessment of injury risk.
The decision to rebuild the nuclear triad includes a new long-range cruise missile.
Notably, the future of the nuclear-deterrence triad seems more assured than it has for many years.
Her triad helps us understand what postmodernism is doing to us.
Of that lethal triad, vanity seems to be the most fatal quality.
The Clinton triad united for the final event of the summit, with Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea appearing together on stage.
De Robeck and Keyes came over from the Triad to unravel knotty points.
Malcolm hurried off; I left a little before 6.30 and went, via the Chatham, back to the Triad.
There is extant a British Triad inculcating the three maxims for good health as “cheerfulness, temperance, and early rising”.
He was the chief figure in a triad in which he figured as earth god, with Anu as god of the sky and Ea as god of the deep.
Nitrogen in the triad condition in the amines is far less poisonous than in the pentad condition.