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monodynamic

monodynamic adjective: possessing only one capacity or power.

Adjective

monodynamic (not comparable)

  1. Possessing only one capacity or power.
    • Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers, myriad-minded men, to use Coleridge's phrase, almost always.1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Death of a German Great Man”, in London Magazine
  2. Forming a bond with only one other atom.
    • the atom of iodine is monodynamic in hydriodic acid, where it combines with a single atom of monodynamic hydrogen; tridynamic in terchloride of iodine, where it combines with three monodynamic atoms of chlorine.1868, Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government, page 155

Origin of monodynamic

From mono- + dynamic.

Questions about monodynamic

What does monodynamic mean?
Monodynamic means possessing only one capacity or power.
What part of speech is monodynamic?
Monodynamic is an adjective.

Words near monodynamic in the dictionary

  1. monodrames
  2. monodromic
  3. monodromies
  4. monodromy
  5. monody
  6. monodynamic
  7. monodynamism
  8. monodynamous
  9. monoecian
  10. monoecious
  11. monoeciously

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