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monad
UK /ˈmɒnæd/ US /ˈmoʊnæd/
noun 5
Collocations
2VERB + MONAD
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MONAD + NOUN
monoid
Definitions
noun
1
One thing, one being, one item.
2
A group of entities or items treated as one entity.
3
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads.
“If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new condition to enter into the highest combinations that are possible in this universe.
4
A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
5
A single-celled organism. (See Monas.)
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Synonyms
noun — a singular metaphysical entity from which material propertie
- monas
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Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component
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“If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new co
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Pythagoras considered numbers as the essence and principle of all things, and attributed to them a real and distinct existence; so that, in his view, they were the elements out of which the universe w
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A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
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