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⚫ {{wiktionary|monad}}
'''Monad''', is an English term meaning "one," "single," or "unit," especially in technical contexts. It comes from the Late Latin stem monad-, which comes from the Greek word ''monos'' or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), and may refer to:
'''Monad''' may refer to:


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⚫ *], a type of functor in category theory.
⚫ ==Philosophy==
⚫ *], type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation.
⚫ * ], a term meaning "unit"
⚫ *], a command line interface for Microsoft Windows code-named "Monad".
**], the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
⚫ ** ], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
* ''Great Monad'', an older name for the '']'' symbol
* ''Monadologia Physica'', by ]
⚫ * '']'', by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality
* '' ]'', a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention


==Mathematics, science and technology==
⚫ ===Philosophy===
* ], a historical term for a simple unicellular organism
*], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence, and this essence is sometimes called the monad.
⚫ * ], a construction in category theory
*], the symbol of Technocracy Incorporated and the Technocratic movement.
⚫ * ], functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
⚫ *'']'', a book of philosophy by ] in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality
* ], a 3-term complex
**'']'' by ] also dealt with this topic.
* ], the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
*In ], (a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom) ''The Cup or Monad'' is one of the texts making up the ''Corpus Hermetica''.
⚫ * ], the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows
⚫ *In ] the term can refer to:
**], ] described "monads" that were the smallest units of matter, much like Democritus's notion of an atom.
**], For many others, including Pythagoras, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, Monad was a term for ] or the first being, or the totality of all beings.
⚫ **], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism.


== See also== ==Fictional entities==
* Monads, megastructures in Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel '']''
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* Monad Proxy, a ]
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* John Monad, the title character of the 2007 television series '']''
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* Monad/Monado, a sword in the 2010 videogame '']''
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==Other uses==
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* ], a single note or pitch
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* ], in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
* The emblem of the ]


==See also==
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* ], in abstract algebra
* {{lookfrom|Monad}}, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
* {{intitle|Monad}}


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