Monad

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

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 (nonstandard 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

• 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)

Music

• Monad (music), a single note or pitch
• "Monad's Anthem", a track of Cat Stevens' 1975 album Numbers

See also

• Monoid, in abstract algebra
• Monadic (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Monad, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
• All pages with titles containing Monad