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Definition of Decad

Decad
Decad Dec"ad, n. A decade. Averill was a decad and a half his elder. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Decad from wikipedia

- Look up decad, decads, decade, or decades in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A decade is a period of ten years. Decade(s), Decad, Decadal or The Decade...
- Decad is a name given to a standard sequence of ten scribal training compositions in ancient Sumer. The grouping of compositions known as the Decad is...
- The tetractys (Gr****: τετρακτύς), or tetrad, or the tetractys of the decad is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one...
- Jefferson in Paris, just before the French Revolution. Published as The Fifth Decad of the Cantos XLII–LI. London: Faber & Faber, 1937. Cantos XLII, XLIII and...
- out a group of ten compositions designated by modern scholars as the Decad. The Decad includes the following compositions: Šulgi A Lipit-Eštar A Song of...
- "septachords"), octachords (octads), nonachords (nonads), decachords (decads), undecachords, and, finally, the dodecachord. A time-point set is a duration...
- of Naal****a Divya Prabandham. The verses are classified into fourteen decads, namely, a prayer to Kamadeva for marrying Vishnu, a prayer to Vishnu to...
- (using the strict interpretation of 'century'). For example, "the second decad of the 12th. Cent." [sic]; "The last decade of that century"; "1st decade...
- tetrad, pentad, hexad, heptad, ogdoad, ennead, up to ten, producing a decad. He thus possibly identifies the gnostic aeons with the first elements of...
- The 970s decade ran from January 1, 970, to December 31, 979. Emperor John I delegates the war in the Balkans to his brother-in-law, the Domestic of the...