тетра́да — meaning in English

English meaning

• nibble verb To eat something by taking small, repeated bites.
• tetrad noun A group of four things.

Senses

тетра́да is used for these senses in English:

• nibble (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.

nibble — full definition

1. verb To eat something by taking small, repeated bites.
2. verb To show mild or cautious interest in something, such as an offer or opportunity.
3. noun A small bite, or a small amount of food eaten in small bites.
4. noun In computing, a unit of digital information equal to half a byte (four bits).

tetrad — full definition

1. noun A group of four things.
2. noun Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
3. noun A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
4. noun A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.

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