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

The Pythagoreans having spoken of the point as a monad naturally were led to speak of the line as dyadic, or related to two.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

Whence this process, inconceivable however symbolised, by which alike the monad and the man build themselves up into their respective structures?

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)