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English
Etymology
From mono- + dynamic.
Adjective
monodynamic (not comparable)
- Possessing only one capacity or power.
1823, Thomas De Quincey, “Death of a German Great Man”, in London Magazine:Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers, myriad-minded men, to use Coleridge's phrase, almost always.
- Forming a bond with only one other atom.
1868, Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government, page 155: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.