monad

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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

This something, formerly called a monad, is imperceptible.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Each monad is an original independent being, and is determined to take this particular point in the universe, this place in the scale of beings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various