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Definition of MONAD

Monad
Monad Mon"ad, n. [L. monas, -adis, a unit, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? alone.] 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. (Zo["o]l.) One of the smallest flangellate 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.

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- type, monads define two operators: one to wrap a value in the monad type, and another to compose together functions that output values of the monad type...
- Look up monad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monad may refer to: Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" Monism, the concept of "one essence" in...
- The term monad (from Ancient Gr**** μονάς (monas) 'unity' and μόνος (monos) 'alone') is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most...
- In some Gnostic systems, the supreme being is known as the Monad, the One, the Absolute, Aiōn Teleos (the Perfect Aeon, αἰών τέλεος), Bythos (Depth or...
- of certain topics involving monads. Monads seem to bother a lot of people. There’s even a YouTube video called The Monads Hurt My Head! ... Shortly thereafter...
- Monad University is a private university located in NCR region, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh. It offers various courses in field of engineering, sciences, Education...
- presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. During his last stay in Vienna from 1712 to September 1714, Leibniz wrote...
- theory, the codensity monad is a fundamental construction ****ociating a monad to a wide class of functors. The codensity monad of a functor G : D → C...
- functional programming, a monad transformer is a type constructor which takes a monad as an argument and returns a monad as a result. Monad transformers can be...
- a strong monad is a monad on a monoidal category with an additional natural transformation, called the strength, which governs how the monad interacts...