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'''Monad''' comes from the Greek word μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", "unique") and may refer to: | ||
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Monad comes from the Greek word μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", "unique") and may refer to:
- Monad, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
- Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
- Pythagoreanism, monad was the first thing that came into existence
- Monad (Gnosticism), in Gnosticism
- Hermetica, The Cup or Monad
- Gottfried Leibniz views monads in his Monadology as atomistic mental objects which experience the world from a particular point of view
- Monad (Chinese symbol), duality in nature
Monad may also be:
- All numbers infinitesimally close to a given number in non-standard analysis
- Monad (category theory), a type of functor
- Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
- Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated
- Monad was the codename for Windows PowerShell, a command line interface product from Microsoft
See also
Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Monad.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: