quadruplet vs tetrad

quadruplet

noun
  • A sequence of four elements. 

  • One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth. 

  • A tuplet of four notes. 

  • A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion. 

tetrad

noun
  • A group of four things. 

  • A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres. 

  • A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry. 

  • A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis. 

  • Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process. 

  • A tetravalent atom or radical. 

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