Learn English – Hypernym of “pair/dyad”, “tetrad”, “pentad”

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Does the English language have a hypernym for words like "pair", "triad", "tetrad", and "pentad"? I'm not sure where to look.

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I believe these are all examples of cardinal quantifiers

cardinal numbers, or cardinals for short, are a generalization of the natural numbers used to measure the cardinality (size) of sets. [Wikipedia]

Quantifier: (n) an expression that indicates the scope of a term to which it is attached. [OED]

So, given a pair, triad, tetrad, etc., each is defined by its cardinal attributes (2, 3, 4, n) along with an identifiable and consistent expression regarding the property of each number.

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