diallel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Involving crosses between several or all possible combinations.
adj
Of lines: Meeting and intersecting; not parallel.
noun
A set of all possible pairs of items from a specified set of items, especially when used for a study of diallel crosses.
noun
A form of logical fallacy in which a proposition that is required to prove another proposition can only be proved by means of assuming the truth of the proposition one is trying to prove; circular reasoning.
Example Sentences
- "Nine varieties were chosen for a diallel crossing"
- "The main difference with design II is that the same individuals are used as parents for the diallel mating design (individuals are used both as male and female)."
- "A series of diallel analyses (cf. Mather and Jinks, 1982) were performed to test for heterogeneity among lines of a given type."
- "The diallel mating design is particularly well suited to characterizing genetic effects of inbred lines and their hybrid combinations ."
- "[…] like conditions and common ends as the ideal and goal of human effort are attained along parallel and not diallel lines in all the diversities of human application and invention."
- "Fundamental to this new theory is the discovery of diallel, gravitational-field lines. These connect the two bodies — providing a path for the gravitational information to flow. To see the evidence of these diallel lines in nature requires a paradigm shift away from the traditional view of gravitational interaction."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek.
Origin
Word Breakdown
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