heptad

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Later on every idea will be a heptad, made up of seven elements.

From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood

Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Seven, or the heptad, is a number very powerful for good or for evil.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Thus one of the Meta molecules of iron, containing seven atoms, is identical in appearance with a Hyper heptad, but the latter dissociates into seven atoms, the former into two triads and a single atom.

From Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by Sinnett, A. P.

Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson