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Synonyms monas
Type of 1, ace, i, one, single, unity
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Type of microorganism, micro-organism
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Type of atom

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For a language with side-effects, we can work in the Kleisli category for a monad.
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As the one, source or substance of all things the monad is all encompassing.
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Often, the monad Brahman is seen as the one source, with all other gods emanating from there.
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This new all-pervasive monad encompassed all creation and its original uncreated emanations.
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The type which represents side effects is an example of a monad.
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The ontological essence of a monad is its irreducible simplicity.
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Here within the Enneads of Plotinus the monad can be referred to as the Good above the demiurge.
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This absolute simplicity means that the nous or the person is then dissolved, completely absorbed back into the monad.
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The introduction of a distinct creator God or demiurge, which is an illusion and a later emanation from the single monad or source.
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  • (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one
  • A singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive
  • (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
  • In category theory, a monad or triple is an (endo)functor, together with two associated natural transformations. Monads are important in the theory of pairs of adjoint functors, and they generalize closure operators on partially ordered sets to arbitrary categories.
  • In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang ([yin] [yang] sometimes referred to in the west as yin and yang) is used to describe how polar or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. ...
  • In functional programming, a monad is a kind of abstract data type constructor used to represent computations (instead of data in the domain model). ...
  • In music, a monad is a single note or pitch. The Western chromatic scale, for example, is composed of twelve monads. Monads are contrasted to dyads, groups of two notes, triads, groups of three, and so on.
  • An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible; A monoid in the category of endofunctors
  • (monadic) of or relating to a monad; univalent; of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms; having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)