Lexic.us

Definition of Monad

1. Noun. (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one.

2. Noun. A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive.

3. Noun. (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan).

Definition of Monad

1. n. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

Definition of Monad

1. Noun. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. ¹

2. Noun. (mathematics computing) A monoid in the category of endofunctors. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monad

1. a single-celled organism [n -S] : MONADAL, MONADIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Monad

1. 1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. 2. The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena. 3. One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; especially, the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera. 4. A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid. 5. An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen. Monad deme, in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality. Origin: L. Monas, -adis, a unit, Gr, fr. Alone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monad

momsers momus momuses momzer momzerim momzers mon- mona monachal monachism

monachisms monacid monacidic monacids monact monad (current term) monadal monadaria monadelphia monadelphous

monadelphy monades monadic monadic operation monadic predicate logic monadical monadically monadiform monadism monadisms

Literary usage of Monad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"Every monad reflects every other. Every' monad is a living mirror of the ... In every monad, therefore, the adept may read everything, even the future. ..."

2. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"(1) Every monad depends on God Every monad is, in the first place, Leibniz teaches, in conformity with his doctrine of God's perfect power, dependent on God ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1886)
"For, being composed of small particles, the monad soars into the most rarified and ... And light has been appropriated to the monad, and darkness 2 Miller ..."

4. Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey (1888)
"It is the law of the monad's action to mirror, to reflect, the universe; ... The monad is literally the many in the one ; it is the answer to the inquiry of ..."

5. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"And as the monad vibrates, and recoils into the Darkness of the Primary Thought, so is the Duad left as its vice-gerent and representative, ..."

6. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"THE COMPOUNDS OF THE monad ALCOHOL RADICALS. CnH2n + 1. loa In the following chapter will be found a short description of the chief families of the above ..."

7. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"The God, the monad, or Deity in Unity ; 2. The first God, or first principle, chief of Intelligibles: or, 1. ..."

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