Tetrad

Tetrad ( tetrad ) stands for:

• Another word for nibble in computer science (4 bits)
• a whole consisting of four units in philosophy
• in genetics either the four chromatids of two paired chromosomes during meiosis, also called bivalent , or the four germ cells that arise during meiosis, e.g. B. pollen
• in microbiology the typical association of four spherical bacteria ( tetracocci )
• Tetrad criterion , within psychological tests e.g. Used by Charles Spearman
• A method of calculating curvature in general relativity, see Tetrad (general relativity)

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