Meaning & use
monad
In philosophy, an indivisible, self-contained unit believed to be the basic building block of reality.
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Leibniz argued that the universe is composed of countless monads, each reflecting the whole.
Students found the concept of the monad difficult to reconcile with ordinary physical matter.
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Monad is chiefly a philosophical term from Leibniz's metaphysics; it also has unrelated, specialized meanings in chemistry and computer science.
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