English Dictionary

monad

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmɒnæd/

名詞

古風

(philosophy) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. / (botany) A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.

日本語の意味

（哲学）究極の原子、または拡張性のない単一の点。最終的で不可分な存在。 / （植物学）他と結合していない単一の個体（例：花粉）を指す。

Leibniz argued that each monad reflects the entire universe from its own perspective.

ライプニッツは、それぞれの究極の原子が自分自身の視点から宇宙全体を反映していると主張した。

意味（1）

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

Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

(biology, dated) A single-celled organism.

意味（4）

(category theory) A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.

Coordinate term: comonad

意味（5）

(functional programming) 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.

monads （ plural ）