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Definition of Monad

Monad
Monad Mon"ad, n. [L. monas, -adis, a unit, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? alone.] 1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. 2. (Philos. of Leibnitz) 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. (Zo["o]l.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera. 4. (Biol.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid. 5. (Chem.) 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 (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality.

Meaning of Monad from wikipedia

- type, monads define two operators: one to wrap a value in the monad type, and another to compose together functions that output values of the monad type...
- Look up monad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monad may refer to: Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" Monism, the concept of "one essence" in...
- The term monad (from Ancient Gr**** μονάς (monas) 'unity', and μόνος (monos) 'alone') is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most...
- The Monad in Gnosticism is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Gr**** philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems. The term monad comes from the...
- In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad (also triple, triad, standard construction and fundamental construction) is a monoid in the category...
- Monad University is a state private university located in NCR region, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. It was established by UP State Govt. Act 23 of 2010 & U/S...
- theory, the codensity monad is a fundamental construction ****ociating a monad to a wide class of functors. The codensity monad of a functor G : D → C...
- Monas Hieroglyphica (or The Hieroglyphic Monad) is a book by John Dee, the Elizabethan magus and court astrologer of Elizabeth I of England, published...
- presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. During his last stay in Vienna from 1712 to September 1714, Leibniz wrote...
- functional programming, a monad transformer is a type constructor which takes a monad as an argument and returns a monad as a result. Monad transformers can be...