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] was a symbol referred by the Greek philosophers as "The First", "The Seed", "The Essence", "The Builder", and "The Foundation". Also referred to as "Unity."]]
'''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, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
==Philosophy==
⚫ **], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence **], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
* ], a term meaning "unit"
**], 582 BC–507 BC ]
⚫ **], the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
**], c. 427–c. 347 BC monad is the center of ], ] tetralogies.
⚫ ** ], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
**], 384 BC-322 BC as the arche in his work ].
* ''Great Monad'', an older name for the '']'' symbol
**], early 5th century BC pagan philosopher of monism and founder of ].
* ''Monadologia Physica'', by ]
**], 570–480 BC Pagan philosopher was seen as the first monotheist.
* '']'', by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality
**], ca. 205AD–270AD Pagan philosopher of ].
* '' ]'', a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention
**], 341 BC-270 BC Pagan philosopher's theory of ] as the monad.
⚫ **], in Gnosticism.
**], ''The Cup or Monad'' **], ''The Cup or Monad''
**] views monads in his '']'' as atomistic mental objects which experience the world from a particular point of view + **'']'', a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
**] expressed in the dichotomy of ] and ] (see ]) and the ], ] and his book (1756).


==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
*], ''The Cup or Monad''


==Fictional entities==
== References ==
* Monads, megastructures in Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel '']''
* Hemenway, Priya (2005). ''Divine Proportion''. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing. ISBN 1-4027-3522-7
* Monad Proxy, a ]
* John Monad, the title character of the 2007 television series '']''
* Monad/Monado, a sword in the 2010 videogame '']''


== See also== ==Other uses==
* ], a single note or pitch
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* ], in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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* The emblem of the ]
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* ], in abstract algebra
* {{lookfrom|Monad}}, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
* {{intitle|Monad}}


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