单词 | decad |
释义 | decadn. 1. The number ten (the perfect number of the Pythagoreans). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > ten > [noun] tenc950 dickerc1243 article1594 icre1610 decad1616 teens1662 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Decad, the number of tenne. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 57 The Decad comprehends every reason of number, and every proportion. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 11 The Dekad, the full and perfect number. 1881 S. F. Alleyne tr. E. Zeller Pre-Socratic Philos. I. 427 All numbers and all powers of numbers appeared to them [the Pythagoreans] to be comprehended in the decad. 2. Music. A group of ten notes out of which may be formed the consonant triads, and all the discords possible without a modulation. ΚΠ 1875 A. J. Ellis tr. H. L. F. von Helmholtz On Sensations of Tone 663 Decad. 3. An earlier spelling of decade n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1616 |
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