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{{wiktionary|monad}}
] was a symbol referred by the Greek philosophers as "The First", "The Seed", "The Essence", "The Builder", and "The Foundation"]]
'''Monad''' may refer to:
'''Monad''', Latin for unit, comes from the Greek word ''monos'' or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), and may refer to:


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*Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles:
==Philosophy==
**], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
* ], a term meaning "unit"
**'']'', a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
**], the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
**], a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy.
** ], 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==
Other uses of '''Monad''' include:
* ], a historical term for a simple unicellular organism
*], a field in which a ''monad'' describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number{{fact}}
*], a type of functor * ], a construction in category theory
*] are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation * ], functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
* ], a 3-term complex
*], the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the ]).
* ], the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
*], a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad". * ], the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows


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


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