Definitions for monad

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monad mon·ad

Spelling: [mon-ad, moh-nad]

IPA: /ˈmɒn æd, ˈmoʊ næd/

Monad is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in monad (admno).

Definitions for monad

noun

1. Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
2. Chemistry. an element, atom, or group having a valence of one. Compare dyad (def 3), triad (def 2a).
3. Philosophy. (in the metaphysics of Leibniz) an unextended, indivisible, and indestructible entity that is the basic or ultimate constituent of the universe and a microcosm of it. (in the philosophy of Giordano Bruno) a basic and irreducible metaphysical unit that is spatially and psychically individuated. any basic metaphysical entity, especially having an autonomous life.
4. a single unit or entity.

Origin of monad

1605-15; Late Latin monad- (stem of monas) Greek (stem of monás): unity. See mon-, -ad¹

Examples for monad

He is the monad of monads; the most complete, active, and individualized of all.

Only one minimum is absolutely so named,—God as the monad of monads.

In every other monad, the entelechy, or energy, is but one factor.

Pythagoras held that the unit or monad is the principle and end of all.

By wanting to be, the monad makes itself the elephant, the eagle, or the man.

There is nothing of caprice, of peculiarity, in the content of the monad.

The monad, then, is a spiritual unity; it is individualized life.

Is the Pythagorean image of the harmony, or that of the monad, the truer expression?

As to the monad, the true monad is that which embraces all number or plurality in itself.

In what then do these unities differ from the Uniqueness (or monad)?