triad
Set of three
A triad is a group of three related things or people.
In music, a triad is a three-note chord built on a root, third, and fifth.
The word appears in contexts emphasizing threefold structure: the triad of mind, body, and spirit.
Capitalized, Triad refers to Chinese organized crime syndicates, originally secret societies formed in the 18th century. (Capitalized Triad is the criminal organization.)
Notes sounded simultaneously
- arpeggioSuccessive chord tones
- tonicInvigorating medicinal drink
- dominantHaving superior influence
- subdominantFourth scale degree
major · minor · diminished · augmented · root · third · fifth · inversion
Group of three together
- tripletSet of three
- troikaSet of three, Russian-derived
- triptychArt in three panels
- tercetThree-line verse unit
ternary · trefoil · triune · threefold · trilateral
Structured illegal enterprise
- Cosa NostraSicilian criminal organization
- underworldRealm of the departed
- godfatherMale baptismal guardian
- capoString-shortening clamp device
consigliere · underboss · hitman · enforcer · made man · omerta · racketeering · extortion
Chinese special administrative region
- secret societyCovert fraternal organization
- 14KGold purity designation
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
chord
Notes sounded simultaneously
subdominant · major · minor · diminished · augmented · root · third · fifth · inversion · progression
threesome
Group of three together
tercet · ternary · trefoil · triune · threefold · trilateral
organized crime
Structured illegal enterprise
- Cosa NostraSicilian criminal organization
- underworldRealm of the departed
- godfatherMale baptismal guardian
capo · consigliere · underboss · hitman · enforcer · made man · omerta · racketeering · extortion · money laundering
Hong Kong
Chinese special administrative region
- secret societyCovert fraternal organization
- 14KGold purity designation
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
equilateral
Having all sides congruent
angles · sides · trigonometry · acute · obtuse · congruent · polygon · deltoid · triangular
- triple dog dareHighest level schoolyard provocation
- isosceles triangleThree-sided figure, two congruent
- love triangleThree-person romantic entanglement
- right triangleThree-sided, one perpendicular corner
- third trimesterFinal pregnancy phase
- first trimesterPregnancy's initial twelve weeks
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