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{{wiktionary|monad}} | ||
| '''Monad''' may refer to: | |||
| '''Monad''' refers to anything conceived of as indivisible. | |||
| More specifically, it may refer to: | |||
| {{TOC right}} | {{TOC right}} | ||
| ==Philosophy== | ==Philosophy== | ||
| *] a term meaning "unit" |
* ], a term meaning "unit" | ||
| *], the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory | **], the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory | ||
| *], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism | ** ], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism | ||
| ⚫ | * ''Great Monad'', an older name for the '']'' symbol | ||
| ⚫ | *'']'', |
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| *''Monadologia Physica'' by ] | * ''Monadologia Physica'', by ] | ||
| ⚫ | * '']'', by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality | ||
| *''The Cup or Monad'', a text in the ''Corpus ]'' | |||
| * '' ]'', a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention | |||
| ⚫ | *''Great Monad'', an older name for the ] symbol | ||
| *], or the "Hieroglyphic Monad", a symbol designed by John Dee | |||
| ==Mathematics and |
==Mathematics, science and technology== | ||
| *], a |
* ], a historical term for a simple unicellular organism | ||
| *], functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation | * ], a construction in category theory | ||
| * ], functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation | |||
| *], a 3-term complex | * ], a 3-term complex | ||
| *], the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point |
* ], the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point | ||
| ⚫ | * ], the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows | ||
| ==Fictional entities== | |||
| ==Music== | |||
| ⚫ | * Monads, megastructures in Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel '']'' | ||
| *], a single note, in contradistinction to a dyad, triad, tetrad, etc. | |||
| ⚫ | * Monad Proxy, a ] | ||
| ⚫ | * John Monad, the title character of the 2007 television series '']'' | ||
| ⚫ | * Monad/Monado, a sword in the 2010 videogame '']'' | ||
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==Other uses== | ||
| * ], a single note or pitch | |||
| *Monad, a historical term for a simple ] | |||
| * ], in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India | |||
| * The emblem of the ] | |||
| ==Proper names and popular culture== | |||
| ⚫ | *John Monad, title character of the television series '']'' | ||
| ⚫ | *Monad, |
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| ⚫ | *Monad/Monado, a sword |
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| ⚫ | *Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series '' |
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| ⚫ | *Monads, megastructures in |
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| *"Monad's Anthem", the last track of Cat Stevens' 1975 album ] | |||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| ⚫ | * ] | ||
| ⚫ | *{{lookfrom|Monad}}, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic" | ||
| ⚫ | * ] | ||
| ⚫ | *{{intitle|Monad}} | ||
| * ], in abstract algebra | |||
| ⚫ | *] | ||
| ⚫ | * {{lookfrom|Monad}}, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic" | ||
| ⚫ | *] | ||
| ⚫ | * {{intitle|Monad}} | ||
| {{Disambiguation}} | {{Disambiguation}} | ||
Latest revision as of 15:15, 27 August 2024
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
- La Monadologie, 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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