Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to:
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Pentad (chord), a five-note chord
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Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group
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solar term
A solar term is any of twenty-four periods in traditional Chinese lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon. The points are spaced 15° apart along the ecliptic and are used by lunisola ...
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Dramatistic pentad
The dramatistic pentad forms the core structure of dramatism, a method for examining motivations that the renowned literary critic Kenneth Burke developed. Dramatism recommends the use of a metalinguistic approach to stories about human action th ...
, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation
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Medical pentad, a group of five signs or symptoms which characterise a specific medical condition
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tuple
In mathematics, a tuple is a finite ordered list (sequence) of elements. An -tuple is a sequence (or ordered list) of elements, where is a non-negative integer. There is only one 0-tuple, referred to as ''the empty tuple''. An -tuple is defi ...
of length 5
See also
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5
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Quintet (disambiguation)
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Tetrad (disambiguation) ('group of 4')
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Hexad (disambiguation) ('group of 6')
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Lustrum
A lūstrum (, plural lūstra) was a term for a five-year period in Ancient Rome.
It is distinct from the homograph ''lustrum'' ( ): a haunt of wild beasts (and figuratively, a den of vice), plural ''lustra'' ( ).Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary (20 ...
, a five-year period in Ancient Rome.
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Pentadic numerals
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''p''-adic number
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Quinary
Quinary (base-5 or pental) is a numeral system with 5 (number), five as the radix, base. A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five finger, digits on either hand.
In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 (number) ...
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