Explore Tetrad through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like four or digit. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tetrad meaning
- A group of four things.
- Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
- A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
Synonyms of Tetrad
Using Tetrad
- The main meaning on this page is: A group of four things. | Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process. | A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
- Useful related words include: four, digit, little joe, foursome.
- In the example corpus, tetrad often appears in combinations such as: the tetrad, tetrad is.
Context around Tetrad
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tetrad
- In this selection, "tetrad" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, moon, quadruple, coenocytic, investment, occurs and stage stand out and add context to how "tetrad" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include at coenocytic tetrad stage of and bivalent or tetrad chromosomes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tetrad" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tetrad
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each quadruple (tetrad) occurs 5 times. (6 words)
The paired chromosomes are called bivalent or tetrad chromosomes. (9 words)
The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology (i. (15 words)
There are four kinetochores on each tetrad, but the pair of kinetochores on each sister chromatid fuses and functions as a unit during meiosis I. Raven, Peter H.; Johnson, George B.; Mason, Kenneth A.; Losos, Jonathan & Singer, Susan. (38 words)
The local authority’s finance department on March 29, 2018 reported that the city council conducted business with financial institutions such as Tetrad Investment Bank, Metbank, Allied Bank and AfrAsia Bank. (31 words)
Pastor Biltz emphasized that not only will a total solar eclipse traverse North America on Monday, April 8, 2024, but it will be followed by an "almost" blood moon tetrad. (30 words)
McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium: *What does the medium enhance? (24 words)
Example sentences (13)
Pastor Biltz emphasized that not only will a total solar eclipse traverse North America on Monday, April 8, 2024, but it will be followed by an "almost" blood moon tetrad.
The local authority’s finance department on March 29, 2018 reported that the city council conducted business with financial institutions such as Tetrad Investment Bank, Metbank, Allied Bank and AfrAsia Bank.
A third term of The Global Village that McLuhan and Powers develop at length is The Tetrad.
Each quadruple (tetrad) occurs 5 times.
McLuhan designed the tetrad as a pedagogical tool, phrasing his laws as questions with which to consider any medium: *What does the medium enhance?
Pollens/Microspores of Lycopersicon esculentum at coenocytic tetrad stage of development observed through oil immersion microscope; the chromosomes of what will become four pollen grains can be seen.
Sulcate pollen has a furrow across the middle of what was the outer face when the pollen grain was in its tetrad.
The orientation of furrows (relative to the original tetrad of microspores) classifies the pollen as sulcate or colpate.
The paired chromosomes are called bivalent or tetrad chromosomes.
There are four kinetochores on each tetrad, but the pair of kinetochores on each sister chromatid fuses and functions as a unit during meiosis I. Raven, Peter H.; Johnson, George B.; Mason, Kenneth A.; Losos, Jonathan & Singer, Susan.
The tetrad is a means of examining the effects on society of any technology (i.
The tetrad is something like threads in a complexly interwoven flowing superspace, a four-fold pattern of transformation.
Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as four diamonds forming an X, with the name of a medium in the centre.
Common combinations with tetrad
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tetrad 4×
- tetrad is 2×