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
In chapters xvii.-xix. most of the original laws are still arranged in the decalogue and pentad form.
From The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Kent, Charles Foster
The 'even' in the Sûtra is meant to intimate that the 'five five-people' can in no way mean the twenty-five categories, since there is no pentad of groups consisting of five each.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
The word pentad at once recalls to you the way in which the chemist speaks of a monad, triad, heptad, when he deals with elements.
From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood
C. Wachsmuth.—The pentad arrangement in Dio and others.
