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.
• Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
• Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
• Monadology, a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality
• Monadologia Physica by Immanuel Kant
• The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica
• Great Monad, an older name for the Taijitu symbol

Mathematics and computer science

• 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.

Music

• Monad (music), a single note, in contradistinction to a dyad, triad, tetrad, etc.

Biology

• Monad, a historical term for a simple unicellular organism

Proper names and popular culture

• John Monad, title character of the television series John from Cincinnati
• Monad, a code name for the Windows PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows
• Monad/Monado, a sword In the videogame Xenoblade Chronicles that allows the user to foresee the future
• Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series Ergo Proxy
• Monads, megastructures in the novel The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
• "Monad's Anthem", the last track of Cat Stevens' 1975 album Numbers

See also

• All pages beginning with "Monad", for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
• All pages with titles containing Monad
• Monadic (disambiguation)
• Monoid
• Monas Hieroglyphica, or the "Hieroglyphic Monad", a symbol designed by John Dee