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A dramatic composition for a single performer.

A duel; single combat. "The duello or monomachia." Sir W. Scott.

One who fights in single combat; a duelist.

Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.

A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.

Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.

Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a.

Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to Ant: polyphonic.

A single uncompounded vowel sound.

Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.

One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.

Paralysis affecting a single limb.

Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.

A measure of but a single foot.

Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

Having but a single stone or kernel.

Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.