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⚫ '''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 several thing in different fields:
] 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."]]
⚫ *In ], a ''monad'' is the collection of all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number.{{fact}}
⚫ '''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:
⚫ *In ] a ] is a type of functor.

⚫ *In ] ] are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation.
*Monad, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
⚫ *"Monad" is the code-name of ], a command line interface for Microsoft Windows.
⚫ **], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
*In ] the term monad is used in a number of distinct ways:
**], 582 BC–507 BC ]
⚫ **] is the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence, and this essence is sometimes called the monad.
**], c. 427–c. 347 BC monad is the center of ], ] tetralogies.
⚫ **In the ] the ] is the symbol of Technocracy Incorporated (and the Technocratic movement).
**], 384 BC-322 BC as the arche in his work ].
**In ] monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality in the ] of ] and the book "Physical Monadology" by ].
**], early 5th century BC pagan philosopher of monism and founder of ].
**], 570–480 BC Pagan philosopher was seen as the first monotheist. **In ], ''The Cup or Monad'' is one of the texts making up the Corpus Hermetica
**In ] the term was used in several ways.
**], ca. 205AD–270AD Pagan philosopher of ].
**], 341 BC-270 BC Pagan philosopher's theory of ] as the monad. ***For ] monads were the smallest units of matter, much like ]'s notion of an ]
***For many others, including ], ], ], ], ], and ], Monad was a term for ] or the first being, or the totality off all beings.
**], in Gnosticism.
***In the religion ], the ] was the most primal aspect of God.
**], ''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).

Other uses of '''Monad''' include:
⚫ *], a field in which a ''monad'' describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number{{fact}}
⚫ *], a type of functor
⚫ *] are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
⚫ *], the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the ]).
⚫ *], a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".
*], ''The Cup or Monad''

== References ==
* Hemenway, Priya (2005). ''Divine Proportion''. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing. ISBN 1-4027-3522-7


== See also== == See also==
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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 several thing in different fields:

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