Usually means: Group of three closely related.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word triad:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. triad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. triad: Merriam-Webster
  3. Triad, triad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. triad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. triad: Collins English Dictionary
  6. triad: Vocabulary.com
  7. Triad, triad: Wordnik
  8. triad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. triad: Wiktionary
  10. triad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. triad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. triad: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. triad: Dictionary.com
  14. triad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. The Triad (Charmed), The Triad (mountain), Triad (American fraternities), Triad (Greek philosophy), Triad (The Byrds song), Triad (anatomy), Triad (band), Triad (comics), Triad (computing), Triad (disambiguation), Triad (environmental science), Triad (film), Triad (fraternities), Triad (monitors), Triad (music), Triad (organized crime), Triad (relationship), Triad (religious), Triad (sociology), Triad (underground societies), Triad (underground society), Triad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Triad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. triad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. triad: Rhymezone
  19. Triad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. triad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. triad: FreeDictionary.org
  22. triad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. triad: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. triad: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Triad: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Triad: Game Dictionary
  2. The Triad, Triad (disambiguation), Triad (underground societies), triad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. triad: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. The Triad, Triad (disambiguation), Triad (music), triad: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. TRIAD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Triad: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Triad (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. triad: The Folk File
  3. Triad: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A grouping of three.
noun:  A word of three syllables.
noun:  A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.
noun:  (electronics) On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
noun:  (music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.

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