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pentad [′pen‚tad]
(climatology)
A period of 5 consecutive days, often preferred to the week for climatological purposes since it is an exact factor of the 365-day year.


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The dinner scene is subjected to two forms of Kenneth Burke's analysis: 1) the dramatic pentad or dramatism, and 2) consubstantiality, or identification.
Chemists hooked together five molecular components into a pentad that mimics the early stages of photosynthesis (137: 247).
In the latest step toward artificial photosynthesis, chemists at Arizona State University in Tempe have assembled a five-component molecular machine, or pentad, that harvests light energy and uses it to segregate positive and negative charges on opposite ends of the pentad.
 
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