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Monad definition

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(philosophy) An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibniz.
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A unit; something simple and indivisible.
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(philos.) An entity or elementary being thought of as a microcosm or ultimate unit.
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Any simple, single-celled organism, specif., a simple type of flagellated protozoan or protist.
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Any of the four nuclei formed at the completion of meiosis.
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An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
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(mathematics, computing) A monoid in the category of endofunctors.
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(biology) A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan formerly classified in the taxonomic group Monadina.
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(chem.) A monovalent atom, element, or radical.
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(biology) A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan formerly classified in the taxonomic group Monadina.
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monad
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Origin of monad

  • Latin monas monad- unit from Greek from monos single men-4 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Monad Sentence Examples

  • Each monad works out necessary results, but these flow from its own nature; and so in a sense it is free.

  • For the soul, by its nature as a single monad indestructible and, therefore, immortal, death meant only the loss of the monads constituting the body and its return to the pre-existent state.

  • According to this view, it is necessary to assume that, in all unsaturated compounds, two, or some even number of affinities are disengaged; and also that all elements which combine with an even number of monad atoms cannot combine with an odd number, and vice versa, - in other words, that the number of units of affinity active in the case of any given element must be always either an even or an odd number, and that it cannot be at one time an even and at another an odd number.

  • The Father in Clement's mind becomes the Absolute of the philosophers, that is to say, not the Father at all, but the Monad, a mere point devoid of all attributes.

  • The soul of man is a thinking monad, and stands mid-way between the divine intelligence and the world of external things.

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