Monad may refer to:
Philosophy
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Monad (philosophy)
The term ''monad'' () is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most basic or original substance. As originally conceived by the Pythagoreans, the Monad is the Supreme Being, divinity or the totality of all things. In the p ...
, a term meaning "unit"
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Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness (Greek: μόνος) to a concept e.g., existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:
* Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., i ...
, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
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Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
* ''Great Monad'', an older name for the
Taijitu symbol
* ''Monadologia Physica'', by
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...
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Monadology'', by Gottfried Leibniz (a basic unit of perceptual reality)
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Monas Hieroglyphica
''Monas Hieroglyphica'' (or ''The Hieroglyphic Monad'') is a book by John Dee, the Elizabethan magus and court astrologer of Elizabeth I of England, published in Antwerp in 1564. It is an exposition of the meaning of an esoteric symbol that he in ...
'', a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention
Mathematics, science and technology
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Monad (biology)
A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of a single cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of multiple cells. Organisms fall into two general categories: prokaryotic organisms a ...
, a historical term for a simple unicellular organism
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Monad (category theory)
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad (also triple, triad, standard construction and fundamental construction) is a monoid in the category of endofunctors. An endofunctor is a functor mapping a category to itself, and a monad is ...
, a construction in category theory
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Monad (functional programming), functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
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Monad (linear algebra)
In linear and homological algebra, a monad is a 3-term complex
: ''A'' → ''B'' → ''C''
of objects in some abelian category
In mathematics, an abelian category is a category in which morphisms and objects can be added and in which kernels ...
, a 3-term complex
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Monad (nonstandard analysis) In nonstandard analysis, a monad (also called halo) is the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point.
Given a hyperreal number ''x'' in R∗, the monad of ''x'' is the set
:\text(x)=\.
If ''x'' is finite (limited), the unique real n ...
, the set of points infinitesimally close to a given point
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Monad shell
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management program from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-sourc ...
, the code name for the PowerShell command line interface for Microsoft Windows
Fictional entities
* Monads, megastructures in the 1971 Robert Silverberg novel ''
The World Inside''
* Monad Proxy, a
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
is a series of action role-playing games developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo. It is a part of the '' Xeno'' metaseries created by Tetsuya Takahashi, but was formed after Nintendo's acquisition of Monolith Soft in 2007. The seri ...
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Monad (music)
In music, a monad is a single note
Note, notes, or NOTE may refer to:
Music and entertainment
* Musical note, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music
* ''Notes'' (album), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian
* ''Notes'', a comm ...
, a single note or pitch
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Monad University
Monad University is a state private university located in NCR region, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in ...
, in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
* The logo of the
technocracy movement
See also
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Monade
Monade were a French post-rock band which was initially a side project of Lætitia Sadier, a founding member of Stereolab. In 2009, Sadier retired the project name "Monade" and began performing under her own name.
History
In the late 1990s, th ...
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Monadic (disambiguation)
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Monoid
In abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics, a monoid is a set equipped with an associative binary operation and an identity element. For example, the nonnegative integers with addition form a monoid, the identity element being 0.
Monoid ...
, in abstract algebra
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