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noun

Monad n.

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

(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.

(Zool.) One of the smallest flagellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.

(Biol.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.

(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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"Monad" Quotes from Famous Books

... will," said Barbara. "But the world is manifold. You can set up any kind of a monad you like, and a world will shape itself round it. You've just got to live your own way, and everything that belongs to it will be sure to join on. You'll have a world before you know it. I think myself that's what the Ark means, and Mount Ararat, and the Noachian—don't ...

— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... 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 to the introduction ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine

... is self-devouring. Substance preys upon substance. As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do spheres consume each other. Stars give being to worlds and devour them; planets assimilate their own moons. All is a ravening that never ends but to recommence. And unto whomsoever ...

— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... Ketones are derived from the fatty acids by the substitution of the hydroxyl of the latter by a monad positive radical. They thus resemble aldehydes in constitution. The best-known ketone is acetone CH{3}CO.CH{3}. Mixed ketones are obtained by distilling together salts of two different fatty acids. Thus potassic butyrate and ...

— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford

... the Bible, or rather the contrary, yet that it ought consistently to have been there"—a sentiment which provoked from Professor Dodd a long whistle like that of Uncle Toby with Lilliburlero. "For," as I ingeniously represented, "man or God consists of the Monad from which developed spirit or intellect and soul; for toto enim in mundo lucet Trias cujus Monas est princeps, as the creed of the Rosicrucians begins (which is taken from the Zoroastrian oracles)"—here ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

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