Meaning & use
octad
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A group or set of eight things.
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The composer arranged the piece around an octad of recurring musical phrases.
Chemists sometimes refer to the eighth-period elements informally as an octad.
A note on using this word
Built from the Greek prefix 'octa-' (eight) plus the suffix '-ad,' used to denote a group of a specified number, as in 'dyad' or 'triad.'
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