monadic
Britishadjective
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being or relating to a monad
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logic maths (of an operator, predicate, etc) having only a single argument place
Example Sentences
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This American premiere from the Polish company Teatr ZAR reflects — with the help of Anatolian monadic chants — on the annihilation of nearly 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
From New York Times • May 15, 2015
It inspires a tidy, monadic surge of ferocity or freedom, quickly passed over in novel or movie because the hawk isn’t embodied.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2013
The persons of the trinity are simply characters assumed by the monadic essence, or aspects under which men view it.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)
They knew also that each of these orders of matter served as an Upâdhi or basis of manifestation for a great class of evolving monadic essence, and so they christened the essence "elemental".
From The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena by Leadbeater, C. W. (Charles Webster)
Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean†, circumforaneous†; noctivagrant†, mundivagrant; locomotive. wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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