English Dictionary

triad

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹaɪ.æd/

名詞

A grouping of three. / A word of three syllables. / A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

日本語の意味

三つの要素から成る集まり / 3音節からなる単語 / 主に香港を拠点とする中国系地下犯罪組織

The architect arranged the windows in a perfect triad to balance the façade.

建築家はファサードのバランスを取るために窓を完璧な三連に配置した。

意味（1）

A grouping of three.

There are, says the Irish triad, 'three fewnesses that are better than plenty: a fewness of fine words; a fewness of cows on grass; a fewness of good friends around good ale'. As an Ulsterman I would agree.

意味（2）

A word of three syllables.

In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences.

意味（3）

A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

The point — and the symbolism — was that so long as the informer kept his mouth shut he was alive. Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui. They had used broad nail heads that didn’t make such big holes on their way in. When the paramedics came and pulled the brick off the dead man, the face came with it.

意味（4）

(electronics) on a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

意味（5）

(music) A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale.

triads （ plural ）