Definitions for monads

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monads mon·ad

Spelling: [mon-ad, moh-nad]

IPA: /ˈmɒn æd, ˈmoʊ næd/

Monads is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in monads (admnos).

Definitions for monads

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 monads

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

Examples for monads

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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