Definition of "monic"

monic

adjective
not comparable
1. (mathematics) Of a polynomial whose leading coefficient is one.
2. (biology) Monomorphic.
3. (category theory) Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
  Quotations
  It is often convenient to view a monic arrow i : A ↣ C {\displaystyle i:A\rightarrowtail C} , defined in Chapter 1, as showing that A is a copy of a part of C, and that i maps the copy on to that part. For example, in Set, the monic arrows are the one-to-one functions and, clearly, if i is one-to-one then A is a copy of a subset of C, namely of the image of i.
  1995, Colin McLarty, “Introduction”, in Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, page 5
noun
plural monics
1. A monic polynomial.