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

For if the intelligent dog or elephant have existence in the future, so may the fish, the mollusk, the monad, and even the speck of protoplasm, which loses itself in unorganic matter.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

This something, formerly called a monad, is imperceptible.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

This seems to be the case, for we find that the spectra of Sodium, Potassium, Lithium, Hydrogen, Chlorine, which are all monad elements, consist of comparatively few lines.”

From Aether and Gravitation by Hooper, William George