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Philosophy
- Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" used by philosophers to signify a variety of entities from a genus to God
- Monads, a basic unit of perceptual reality in the book of philosophy Monadology by Gottfried Leibniz
- 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
Mathematics, science and technology
- 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
Fictional entities
- John Monad, the title character of the television series John from Cincinnati
- Monad/Monado, a sword in the videogame Xenoblade Chronicles
- Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series Ergo Proxy
- Monads, megastructures in the novel The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
- Monad, an intelligent satellite encountered during a host segment of episode 706 of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Laserblast)
Other uses
- Monad (music), a single note or pitch
See also
- Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant
- "Monad's Anthem", a track of Cat Stevens' 1975 album Numbers
- Monadic (disambiguation)
- Monoid, in abstract algebra
- Monas Hieroglyphica, or the "Hieroglyphic Monad", a symbol designed by John Dee
- All pages with titles beginning with Monad, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
- All pages with titles containing Monad
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