Dyadic describes the interaction between two things, and may refer to: *

Dyad (sociology) In sociology, a dyad is a group of two people, the smallest possible social group. As an adjective, "dyadic" describes their interaction.Macionis, John J., and Linda Marie Gerber. Sociology. 7th ed. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. 153-54. ...

, interaction between a pair of individuals **The dyadic variation of

Democratic peace theory The democratic peace theory posits that democracies are hesitant to engage in armed conflict with other identified democracies. Among proponents of the democratic peace theory, several factors are held as motivating peace between democratic s ...

*Dyadic counterpoint, the voice-against-voice conception of

polyphony Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, ...

*People who are not

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bin ...

(see also

endosex An ''endosex'' person is someone whose innate sex characteristics fit normative medical or social ideas for female or male bodies. The word ''endosex'' is an antonym of ''intersex''. Etymology and meaning The prefix '' endo-'' comes from the An ...

)

Mathematics

*Dyadic, a relation or function having an arity of two in logic, mathematics, and computer science *Dyadic decomposition, a concept in Littlewood–Paley theory *

Dyadic distribution A dyadic (or 2-''adic'') distribution is a specific type of discrete probability distribution that is of some theoretical importance in data compression. Definition A dyadic distribution is a probability distribution whose probability mass func ...

, a type of probability distribution *

Dyadic fraction In mathematics, a dyadic rational or binary rational is a number that can be expressed as a fraction whose denominator is a power of two. For example, 1/2, 3/2, and 3/8 are dyadic rationals, but 1/3 is not. These numbers are important in computer ...

, a mathematical group related to dyadic rationals * Dyadic solenoid, a type of dyadic fraction *

Dyadic transformation The dyadic transformation (also known as the dyadic map, bit shift map, 2''x'' mod 1 map, Bernoulli map, doubling map or sawtooth map) is the mapping (i.e., recurrence relation) : T: , 1) \to , 1)^\infty : x \mapsto (x_0, x_1, x_2, ...

*Dyadics, tensor math (including dyadic products) *A synonym for binary relations

Mathematics

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