Associations to the word «Triad»

Pictures for the word «Triad»

Wiktionary

TRIAD, noun. A grouping of three.
TRIAD, noun. (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.
TRIAD, noun. (electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
TRIAD, noun. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

Dictionary definition

TRIAD, noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.
TRIAD, noun. A set of three similar things considered as a unit.
TRIAD, noun. Three people considered as a unit.
TRIAD, noun. A three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope