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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:

• Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles:
  • Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
  • Monad (Gnosticism), in Gnosticism.
  • Hermetica, The Cup or Monad
  • Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
  • Monad (Chinese symbol), a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy.

Other uses of Monad include:

• Non-standard analysis, a field in which a monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number
• 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 (and the Technocratic movement).
• Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".

See also

• Monadology

• Disambiguation pages