monad
/ˈmoʊnæd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.35 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
noun
A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
noun
A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 was constructed. […] The "Monad" or unit he regarded as the source of all numbers."
- "More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God[…]. Perhaps these two atoms, or essences, or monads indestructible, did but repeat an adventure, or many, many adventures."
- "The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just."
Etymology
From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-). By surface analysis, mono- + -ad.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmoʊnæd/
- British English: /ˈmɒnæd/