monodynamic

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ dynamic.

Adjective

monodynamic (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. 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.