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Monad may refer to:

Philosophy

• Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit"
  • Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
  • Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
• Great Monad, an older name for the taijitu symbol
• Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant
• Monadology, by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality
• Monas Hieroglyphica, a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention

Mathematics, science and technology

• Monad (biology), a historical term for a simple unicellular organism
• Monad (category theory), a construction in category theory
• Monad (functional programming), functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
• Monad (homological algebra), a 3-term complex
• Monad (nonstandard analysis), the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
• Monad shell, the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows

Fictional entities

• Monads, megastructures in Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel The World Inside
• Monad Proxy, a character in the 2006 anime series Ergo Proxy
• John Monad, the title character of the 2007 television series John from Cincinnati
• Monad/Monado, a sword in the 2010 videogame Xenoblade Chronicles

Other uses

• Monad (music), a single note or pitch
• Monad University, in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
• The emblem of the technocracy movement

See also

• Monade
• Monadic (disambiguation)
• Monoid, in abstract algebra
• All pages with titles beginning with Monad, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
• All pages with titles containing Monad

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