monad

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Or, if you want to look at it the other way around, a monad is a generalized comprehension that can be defined for almost any parameterized data type.

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  1. noun Philosophy An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibniz.
  2. noun Biology A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan of the genus Monas.
  3. noun Chemistry An atom or a radical with valence 1.

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  • There is the space in the private world of each monad, which is the space that the monad can come to know by analysing and arranging data without assuming anything beyond data. —  My Philosophical Development
  • In this paper we give a monadic definition of constraint programming where the solver is defined as a monad threaded through the monadic search tree. —  Planet Haskell
  • Or, if you want to look at it the other way around, a monad is a generalized comprehension that can be defined for almost any parameterized data type. —  Random Hacks
  • This paper shows how list comprehensions may be generalised to an arbitrary monad, and how the resulting programming feature can concisely express in a pure functional language some programs that manipulate state, handle exceptions, parse text, or invoke continuations .... —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • These organs are connected with other sensations, and move, as it were, with them in circles of existence, quitting for a time some trains of sensation to return to others; but the monad is always present. —  Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
 

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  1. Latin monas, monad-, unit, from Greek, from monos, single; see men-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French monade = Spanish mónada = Portuguese monada = Italian monade, from Late Latin monas (monad-), from Greek μονάς (μοναδ-), a unit, unity, as adjective solitary, single, from μόνος (Ionic μοῡνος, Doric μω̄νος, orig. *μον#567ος), alone, solitary, single, sole, only; apparently akin to μία, feminine of εῑ)ς (ἑν-), one.
 

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