Meaning & use
Monadic
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Relating to a single unit or element; in logic, mathematics, or computer science, involving only one argument or operand.
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In logic, a monadic predicate takes just one argument, unlike a relation that connects two or more.
The philosopher argued that reality was fundamentally monadic, composed of indivisible individual units.
A note on using this word
The word derives from 'monad,' the philosophical term for a fundamental, indivisible unit famously developed by Leibniz, and is now also common in programming as 'monadic functions.'
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