Qué (quién) es monad - definición
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monad
['m?nad, 'm??-]
¦ noun
1. technical a single unit; the number one.
2. Philosophy (in the philosophy of Leibniz) an indivisible and hence ultimately simple entity, e.g. an atom or a person.
3. Biology, dated a single-celled organism or a single cell.
Derivatives
monadic adjective
monadism noun (Philosophy).
Origin
C17: via late L. from Gk monas, monad- 'unit', from monos 'alone'.
monad
n.
1.
Atom, molecule, ultimate particle, indivisible particle.
2.
(Zool.) Minute animacule.
Monad
·noun A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.
II. Monad ·noun An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
III. Monad ·noun One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; ·esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.
IV. Monad ·noun An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.
V. Monad ·noun 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.
