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Monad may refer to:

Philosophy

Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit", used by philosophers to signify a variety of entities, originally the God and later such things as genus
- Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
- Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica
Great Monad, an older name for the Taijitu symbol
Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant
Monadology, by Gottfried Leibniz (a basic unit of perceptual reality)
The Hieroglyphic Monad, or Monas Hieroglyphica, a symbol designed by John Dee

Monad (category theory), a construction in category theory
Monad (functional programming), functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
Monad (linear algebra), a 3-term complex
Monad (non-standard analysis), the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
Monad shell, code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows
Monad (biology), a historical term for a simple unicellular organism

Monads, megastructures in the Robert Silverberg novel The World Inside (1971)
Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series Ergo Proxy (2006)
John Monad, the title character of the television series John from Cincinnati (2007)
Monad/Monado, a sword in the videogame Xenoblade Chronicles (2010)