English Explanatory Dictionary

monadic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. of, relating to, or being a monad
  2. univalent
  3. of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms
  4. having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)

Word forms

monadic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μοναδικός (monadikós, “single”), from μονάς (monás, “a unit”); see monad. By surface analysis, monad + -ic.

Related words

monad dyadic triadic polyadic variadic

Derived words

monadically monadicity monadic predicate logic monadic second-order logic nonmonadic
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