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noun
Monad  n.  
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.
(Zool.) One of the smallest flagellate 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Monad" Quotes from Famous Books



... flesh. I animalize it. I render it sensitive." It harbors latent, imperfect sensibility rendered perfect and made manifest. Organization is the cause, and life and sensation are the effects; I need no spiritual monad to account for effects since I am in possession of the cause. "Look at this egg, with which all schools of theology and all the temples of the earth can be overthrown. What is this egg? An inanimate mass previous ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine



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