The contest requires a group of pentad dancers. From LearnThat.org.
Are we then to take it that the monads in the pentad and decad differ while the unity in the pentad is the same as that in the decad?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
And what is the source of the autocorrelation in the pentad series?. From Wordnik.com. [More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit] Reference
The point is that in the pentad series the observations are heavily autocorrelated. From Wordnik.com. [More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit] Reference
Five, or the pentad, is everything; it stops the power of poisons, and is dreaded by evil spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Graph that, then add them up to make a single point on a pentad graph thirty storms for the five years. From Wordnik.com. [USCCSP: Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere « Climate Audit] Reference
Take that away and the regression parameters on the pentad series would be unbiased, albeit more error prone. From Wordnik.com. [More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit] Reference
There is something to be said for this view, but on the whole the balance of the evidence is in favor of nitrogen being a pentad. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
So I'm not sure who is supposed to be holding the inconsistent pentad the four conditions and the strict proportional justice requirement. From Wordnik.com. [Sider, Hell, Morality, and Sorites] Reference
And that is a direct result of cherry-picking a window 5-y “pentad” that “happens” to cause the lag-5 autocorrelation to bubble up to the surface in the pentad series. From Wordnik.com. [More Bender on Hurricane Counts « Climate Audit] Reference
She is partially responsible for my success in graduate school: One of two scholarly essays of mine to capture honors in my second year of study there concerned JCO, and part of my oral defense concerned Oates and the Burkean pentad. From Wordnik.com. [Revealing] Reference
As I have written elsewhere, Joyce Carol Oates or, more accurately, my admiration of her work was partially responsible for my success in graduate school: One of two scholarly essays of mine to capture honors in my second year of study concerned JCO, and part of my oral defense involved examining her work within the framework of the Burkean pentad. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
I will answer that question with a pentad of questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Hardball Times] Reference
I would thus class the pentad of operative Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
In the pre-exchange era almost all patients exhibited the pentad. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Kenneth Burke's pentad provides a helpful framework with which to understand communication. From Wordnik.com. [datenschmutz newsfeed: web 2.0 medien.kultur.technik] Reference
Thankfully, the Globe has definitively debunked a pentad of pernicious myths about Bostonians. From Wordnik.com. [Bostonist] Reference
In chapters xvii. -xix. most of the original laws are still arranged in the decalogue and pentad form. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament] Reference
This early treatment has reduced expression of the other clinical features, with the result that the pentad is less often seen. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
All things in which the temporal is concerned may be reduced to a pentad, namely, prothesis, thesis, antithesis, mesothesis and synthesis. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Reduce it to the noetic pentad, or universal form of contemplation, except where all the terms are absolute, and consequently there is no 'punctum indifferens. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Dongfeng began as one of Chairman Mao's pet projects in 1968, but lately, the Chinese automaker has been feeling left behind, despite being one of the largest carmakers in the pentad of China's auto industry. From Wordnik.com. [Autoblog] Reference
His very language is forced and broken lest some saving formula should be lost -- distinctities, enucleation, pentad of operative Christianity; he has a whole armoury of these terms, and expects to turn the tide of human thought by fixing the sense of such expressions as "reason," "understanding," "idea.". From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
Now of the attributes which inhere always in each several thing there are some which are wider in extent than it but not wider than its genus (by attributes of wider extent mean all such as are universal attributes of each several subject, but in their application are not confined to that subject). while an attribute may inhere in every triad, yet also in a subject not a triad-as being inheres in triad but also in subjects not numbers at all-odd on the other hand is an attribute inhering in every triad and of wider application (inhering as it does also in pentad), but which does not extend beyond the genus of triad; for pentad is a number, but nothing outside number is odd. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
The second point is that an objection may be urged, as, for example, in ammonium chloride (the lecturer stated above that here N was a pentad, the addition of the chlorine having caused the N to assume the pentadic character), it may be said, why should you not suppose that it is the chlorine "which has altered its valency, and that the compound should be written. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
The 9th warmest pentad was in the 1930s (1930-34), when the western U.S. was suffering from an extended drought coupled with anomalous warmth. http://www. ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/ann/global. html. From Wordnik.com. [Another Global Warming/Cooling Food Fight - NASA Watch] Reference
The pentad arrangement in Dio and others. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
The local pentad of DOOM are. From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
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