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monad

noun
/ˈmɒnæd/UK/ˈmoʊnæd/US

Etymology

From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-). By surface analysis, mono- + -ad.

  1. derived from *men-✻
  2. derived from μονάς
  3. derived from monas — “unit”

Definitions

  1. One thing, one being, one item.

  2. A group of entities or items treated as one entity.

  3. An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point

    An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a…

      A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.

    2. A single-celled organism. (See Monas.)

    3. A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.

    4. A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations…

      A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".

      • The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA