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monad.

One thing, one being, one item.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɒnæd/Received-Pronunciation/ˈmoʊnæd/General-American
  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; something ultimate and indivisible.

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

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

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

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

Where this word comes from

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

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