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 st ...
*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, h ...
*People who are not intersex, that is,
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
Arity () is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation in logic, mathematics, and computer science. In mathematics, arity may also be named ''rank'', but this word can have many other meanings in mathematics. In ...
of two in logic, mathematics, and computer science
*Dyadic decomposition, a concept in
Littlewood–Paley theory In harmonic analysis, a field within mathematics, Littlewood–Paley theory is a theoretical framework used to extend certain results about ''L''2 functions to ''L'p'' functions for 1 1, then the sequence ''S'n'j'' converges alm ...
*
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 relation">Dyadics">, 1)^\infty
: x \mapsto (x_0, x_1, x_2, ...
*Dyadics, tensor math (including dyadic products)
*A synonym for binary relations