pentad
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In the pentad of 1923-27, U. S. investors paid $34,806,783,000 for 36,965 different issues of bonds and stocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five, or the pentad, is everything; it stops the power of poisons, and is dreaded by evil spirits.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
An element having a valence of one is a monad; of two, a dyad; three, a triad; four, tetrad; five, pentad; six, hexad, etc.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
