decad

D2E1C3A1D2
/ˈdɛkæd/

noun

A group of ten notes from which the consonant triads may be constructed

Scrabble 9

Meanings

noundecad (plural decads)

plural decads

  1. archaicArchaic form of decade (“period of ten years”).

    Since Averill was a decad and a half / His elder, and their parents underground

    1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 55
  2. archaicArchaic form of decade (“group of ten”).

    Plato […] extends number as far as to the decad.

    1806, Aristotle, translated by Thomas Taylor, The Physics, or Physical Ausculation of Aristotle, page 167
  3. entertainmentA group of ten notes from which the consonant triads may be constructed

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Origin

Doublet of decade and dekad. By surface analysis, dec- + -ad.

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