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From dyad + -ic. The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.
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Today it means: having an arity of two (taking two arguments or operands) Full definition →
From dyad + -ic. The mathematics sense was coined by American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs in 1884 in the second half of his book Elements of Vector Analysis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.