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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

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), describes the set of points infinitely close to a given point.

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

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
Xmonad, a window manager for the X Window System