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Definition triad

Etymology

From Latin triad-, stem of trias (“three, triad”), from Ancient Greek ????? (triás).

Sense 3 (“branch of a Chinese underground criminal society”) is due to the word being applied by the British authorities to underground society in Hong Kong based on the geometry of the Chinese character.

Noun

triad (plural triads)

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

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