quatern vs tetrad

quatern

adj
  • quaternate; composed of, or arranged in, sets of four. 

tetrad

noun
  • 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. 

  • A group of four things. 

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