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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
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