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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

• Monadology
• Monism

• Disambiguation pages