'Monad' definitions:
Definition of 'monad'
(from WordNet)
noun
(chemistry) an atom having a valence of one
noun
A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive [syn: monad, monas]
noun
(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Definition of 'Monad'
From: GCIDE
- Monad \Mon"ad\, n. [L. monas, -adis, a unit, Gr. ?, ?, fr. mo`nos alone.]
- 1. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) One of the smallest flagellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Biol.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a unit of the first order of individuality. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monad'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ace,
- air,
- an existence,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- being,
- body,
- brute matter,
- building block,
- chemical element,
- component,
- constituent,
- creature,
- critter,
- earth,
- electron,
- element,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- entelechy,
- entity,
- fire,
- fundamental particle,
- hyle,
- hypostasis,
- I,
- individual,
- ion,
- life,
- material,
- material world,
- materiality,
- matter,
- meson,
- molecule,
- natural world,
- nature,
- no other,
- none else,
- nothing else,
- nought beside,
- nuclear particle,
- object,
- one,
- one and only,
- organism,
- person,
- persona,
- personality,
- physical world,
- plenum,
- proton,
- quark,
- something,
- soul,
- stuff,
- substance,
- substratum,
- the four elements,
- thing,
- unit,
- unit of being,
- water