Triads in a sentence

But Tsui sets the action in Kowloon’s walled city, a largely lawless and densely populated tenement largely made up of refugees that hit peak wildness between the 1950s and 1980s when controlled by local triads.

A group of men suspected to be linked to triads — Hong Kong’s notorious gangsters — also attacked demonstrators, putting 45 people in hospital.

The mobs, which were armed with sticks and batons and carried Chinese flags, are said to be linked to organized crime syndicates known as triads.

The police — who failed to stop the mob, and initially made no arrests — have since detained 12 people in connection with the train station attacks, including some accused of having connections to the criminal gangs known as triads.

The suspected triads had chased commuters, some of whom were protesters returned from an anti-government demonstration that day, beating them with wooden and metal rods.

Triads are organised criminal networks known as the Chinese mafia.

About this sound Equal temperament ( help · info ) An A-major scale, followed by three major triads, and then a progression of fifths in equal temperament.

All triads are tertian chords (chords defined by sequences of thirds), and a major third would produce in this case a non-tertian chord.

An example of a chord progression in which the chord roots move by the interval of a fourth would be the chord progression, in the key of C Major: "D minor/G Major/C Major" (these are all triads; three-note chords).

Audio examples About this sound Just intonation ( help · info ) An A-major scale, followed by three major triads, and then a progression of fifths in just intonation.

Dale Allison and Glen Stassen have proposed a structure based on triads.

For example, triads and sevenths teach how to play chords with accuracy and speed.

He is certainly given a prominent place in the earliest version of the Welsh Triads which are believed to date from c. 1100 and which reflect far older traditions.

In 1829, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner observed that many of the elements could be grouped into triads based on their chemical properties.

In music File:Major and minor triads.

Its 11-hole mouthpiece can slide along the front of the harmonica, which gives numerous chord choices and voicings (seven triads, three 6th chords, seven 7th chords, and seven 9th chords, for a total of 24 chords).

See Döbereiner's triads Large number co-incidences continue to fascinate many mathematical physicists.

Sometimes triads will be asked by the facilitator to come up with a new question.

The Dream's account also seems to accord better with details in the Triads, so it perhaps reflects an earlier tradition.

The later manuscripts of the Triads are partly derivative from Geoffrey of Monmouth and later continental traditions, but the earliest ones show no such influence and are usually agreed to refer to pre-existing Welsh traditions.