monad
Example Sentences
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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
From angels and demons, the Rosacrusian would approach even to the Divinity; calculating the infinity by his geometry, he reveals the nature of the Divine Being, as “a pure monad, including in itself all numbers.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
In Leibniz's monadology, since each monad mirrored the whole universe, there was in each perspective a "sensibile" which was an appearance of each thing.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
These little creatures belong to the monad family, but whether they are to be called Trachelomonads, or by some other hard name, the learned must decide.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
