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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

monadic en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) of, relating to, or being a monad
    • We can refuse to view each of these areas as distinct and monadic categories of identity and we can refuse to study them in isolation from one another. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 142:
  2. (not-comparable) univalent
  3. (not-comparable) of or relating to the Monas genus of microorganisms
  4. (not-comparable) having an arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)
    • "The monadic existential quantifier ∃, as in ∃x, may express existence of x in formal logic or mathematics".

Deriveds

monadically · monadic predicate logic · monadicity · nonmonadic · monadic second-order logic

Relateds

monad · polyadic · variadic · dyadic · triadic

Translations (7)

it monadico (of or relating to a monad) · is einstæður (of or relating to a monad) · pt monádico (of or relating to a monad) · fr monadique (of or relating to a monad) · fi monadinen (of or relating to a monad) · hu monádikus (of or relating to a monad) · es monádico (of or relating to a monad)