monad

Meaning

Noun

• An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
• A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
• A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
• A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".

Origin

• From Latin monas (from Ancient Greek μονάς, from μόνος, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-) -ad.