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monad

[mon-ad, moh-nad] / ˈmɒn æd, ˈmoʊ næd /
NOUN
single entity
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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

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 J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

It will be necessary now to describe briefly the various laws which have governed this evolutionary chain from the monad to man.

From Was Man Created? by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Mott

Whatever may be the ultimate force which actuates this monad, the manifestations of its presence and the result of its energy are seen externally.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner




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