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'''Monad''' may refer to:

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==Philosophy==
* [[Monad (philosophy)]], a term meaning "unit"
**[[Monism]], the concept of "one essence" in  the metaphysical and theological theory
** [[Monad (Gnosticism)]], the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
* ''Great Monad'', an older name for the ''[[taijitu]]'' symbol
* ''Monadologia Physica'', by [[Immanuel Kant]]
* ''[[Monadology|La Monadologie]]'', by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality
* '' [[Monas Hieroglyphica]]'', a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention

==Mathematics, science and technology==
* [[Monad (biology)]], a historical term for a simple unicellular organism
* [[Monad (category theory)]], a construction in category theory
* [[Monad (functional programming)]], functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
* [[Monad (homological algebra)]], a 3-term complex
* [[Monad (nonstandard analysis)]], the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
* [[Monad shell]], the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows

==Fictional entities==
* Monads, megastructures in Robert Silverberg's 1971 novel ''[[The World Inside]]''
* Monad Proxy, a [[List of Ergo Proxy characters|character in the 2006 anime series ''Ergo Proxy'']]
* John Monad, the title character of the 2007 television series ''[[John from Cincinnati]]''
* Monad/Monado, a sword in the 2010 videogame ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles (video game)|Xenoblade Chronicles]]''

==Other uses==
* [[Monad (music)]], a single note or pitch
* [[Monad University]], in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
* The emblem of the [[technocracy movement]]

==See also==
* [[Monade]]
* [[Monadic (disambiguation)]]
* [[Monoid]], in abstract algebra
* {{lookfrom|Monad}}, for titles starting "Monad" or "Monadic"
* {{intitle|Monad}}

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