tetrad
/ˈtɛtɹæd/noun
Middle School
1
A group of four things.
2
Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
3
A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
4
A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
5
A tetravalent atom or radical.
6
A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.
7
A chord comprised of four notes; a tetrachord.
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