Monad

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Monad may refer to:

Philosophy

• Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" used by philosophers to signify a variety of entities from a genus to God
  • Monads, a basic unit of perceptual reality in the book of philosophy Monadology by Gottfried Leibniz
• Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
• Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
• The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica
• Great Monad, an older name for the Taijitu symbol

Science and technology

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

Fictional entities

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

Other uses

• Monad (music), a single note or pitch

See also

• Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant
• "Monad's Anthem", a track of Cat Stevens' 1975 album Numbers
• Monadic (disambiguation)
• Monoid, in abstract algebra
• Monas Hieroglyphica, or the "Hieroglyphic Monad", a symbol designed by John Dee
• All pages beginning with Monad, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
• All pages with a title containing Monad