Monad Definition

mōnăd
monads
noun
monads
A unit; something simple and indivisible.
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Any simple, single-celled organism, specif., a simple type of flagellated protozoan or protist.
Webster's New World
Any of the four nuclei formed at the completion of meiosis.
Webster's New World
A monovalent atom, element, or radical.
Webster's New World
An entity or elementary being thought of as a microcosm or ultimate unit.
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Synonyms:
adjective
Of a monad or monads.
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Other Word Forms of Monad

Noun

Singular:
monad
Plural:
monads

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.

  • 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.

  • Leibniz, on the other hand, regarded his monad as the ultimate element of everything.

  • Such mentally endowed substances might be called souls; but, as he distinguished between perception and apperception or consciousness, and considered that perceptions are often unconscious, he preferred to divide monads into unconscious entelechies of inorganic bodies, sentient souls of animals, and rational souls, or spirits, of men; while he further concluded that all these are derivative monads created by God, the monad of monads.

  • All derivative monads, he allowed, are accompanied by bodies, which, however, are composed of other monads dominated by a central monad.

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