pentad

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In the pentad of 1923-27, U. S. investors paid $34,806,783,000 for 36,965 different issues of bonds and stocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The word pentad at once recalls to you the way in which the chemist speaks of a monad, triad, heptad, when he deals with elements.

From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood

All things in which the temporal is concerned may be reduced to a pentad, namely, prothesis, thesis, antithesis, mesothesis and synthesis.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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

An element having a valence of one is a monad; of two, a dyad; three, a triad; four, tetrad; five, pentad; six, hexad, etc.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips