Mono may refer to:

Biology

Infectious mononucleosis Infectious mononucleosis (IM, mono), also known as glandular fever, is an infection usually caused by the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). Most people are infected by the virus as children, when the disease produces few or no symptoms. In young adu ...

, "the kissing disease" *

Monocyte Monocytes are a type of leukocyte or white blood cell. They are the largest type of leukocyte in blood and can differentiate into macrophages and monocyte-derived dendritic cells. As a part of the vertebrate innate immune system monocytes also ...

, a type of leukocyte (white blood cell) * Monodactylidae, members of which are referred to as monos

Technology and computing

* Mono (audio), single-channel sound reproduction *

Mono (software) Mono is a free and open-source software framework that aims to run software made for the .NET Framework on Linux and other OSes. Originally by Ximian which was acquired by Novell, it was later developed by Xamarin which was acquired by Microsoft. ...

, a software framework

Music

Performers

* Mono (British band), an electronic band * Mono (Japanese band), an instrumental band * MONO, Vietnamese male singer and

Sơn Tùng M-TP Nguyễn Thanh Tùng (born 5 July 1994), known professionally as Sơn Tùng M-TP (), is a Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor. Born and raised in Thái Bình, Thái Bình province, his family discovered his singing ability when he was two y ...

's younger brother * Miky Mono, former member of Mono Inc., a German gothic rock band * Richard Targett and the Monos, a side-project to The Trudy

Albums

* ''Mono'' (Alpha Wolf album) or the title song, 2017 * ''Mono'' (Fury in the Slaughterhouse album), 1993 * ''Mono'' (K.Flay album), 2023 * ''Mono'' (The Icarus Line album), 2001 * ''Mono'' (Lena Katina album) or the title song, 2019 * ''Mono'' (The Mavericks album), 2015 * ''Mono'' (mixtape), by RM, 2018 * ''Mono'', by Paul Westerberg, packaged with ''

Stereo Stereophonic sound, commonly shortened to stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective. This is usually achieved by using two independent audio channels through a configurat ...

'', 2002

Songs

* "Mono" (song), by Courtney Love, 2004 * "Mono", by Fightstar from '' They Liked You Better When You Were Dead'', 2005 * "Mono", by Monrose from '' Ladylike'', 2010 * "Mono", by Whitechapel from ''

Our Endless War ''Our Endless War'' is the fifth studio album by American deathcore band Whitechapel. It was released on April 29, 2014, via Metal Blade. The song "The Saw Is the Law" was released on February 26, 2014, as the first single off the album. On ...

'', 2014

Places

United States

* Mono or

Mono Mills, California Mono Mills (also, Mono) is a ghost town in Mono County, California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevad ...

, a ghost town *

Mono County, California Mono County ( ) is a county (United States), county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 13,195, making it the fourth-least populous county in California. T ...

Mono Village, Mono County, California Twin Lakes is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mono County, California, United States. It is located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, encompassing the lakes of the same name and extending north down the ou ...

, a former settlement *

Mono Lake Mono Lake ( ) is a Salt lake, saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes Hypersaline lake, high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake ...

, California *

Mono Pass Mono Pass is a mountain pass, just outside Yosemite National Park, near the region of Tuolumne Meadows. Mono Pass is between Mount Gibbs and Mount Lewis. There is another pass also named Mono less than 40 miles away in the Rock Creek/Little ...

, Yosemite National park, California

Elsewhere

Mono Department Mono is one of the twelve departments of Benin, with its capital at Lokossa. It is named for the Mono River which forms much of the Benin-Togo border, border with Togo. The northern areas of the department were split off to create the newly form ...

, Benin *

Mono, Ontario Mono is a town situated in south-central Ontario, Canada, at the south-east corner of Dufferin County. It stretches from Highway 9 along its southern border to Highway 89 along its northern border. Its border to the west is with the Township o ...

, Canada, a town * Monó, Romania, a village *

Mono Island Mono Island is the largest island of the Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands, at . Geography Mono island is a volcanic island in the northwest of Solomon Islands. It is separated by the Blanche Harbour from Stirling Island and the other coral ...

, Solomon Islands *

Mono River The Mono River is the major river of eastern Togo. Approximately long, and draining a basin of about , it rises between the town of Sokodé and the border with Benin, and flows south. Along the southern portion of the river towards its mouth, i ...

, Togo

Ethnicities and languages

* Mono people, an ethnic group of California ** Mono language (California) * Mono people (Congo), an ethnic group the Democratic Republic of the Congo **

Mono language (Congo) Mono is an indigenous language spoken by about 65,000 people in the northwestern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the Banda languages, a subbranch of the Ubangian branch of the Niger–Congo languages. It has five di ...

* Mono language (Cameroon) * Mono language (Solomon Islands), a dialect of Mono-Alu

Other uses

Mono- Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: * triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, oc ...

, a numerical prefix representing anything single * BAC Mono, a British sports car which began production in 2011 * Mono, a character in the video game '' Little Nightmares II'' * Mono, a character in the video game '' Shadow of the Colossus'' * ''Mono'', a 2016 American film featuring

Sam Lerner Sam Lerner (born September 27, 1992) is an American actor, who is most known for his role as Geoff Schwartz on '' The Goldbergs'', Charles "Chowder" Peterson in '' Monster House'' and as Quinn Goldberg in '' Project Almanac''. Early life Lerner i ...

* ''Mono'' (manga), a Japanese manga series * Monofilament fishing line *

Monogamy Monogamy ( ) is a social relation, relationship of Dyad (sociology), two individuals in which they form a mutual and exclusive intimate Significant other, partnership. Having only one partner at any one time, whether for life or #Serial monogamy ...

, a relationship structure * Monosexuality, sexual attraction to one gender *

Monomorphism In the context of abstract algebra or universal algebra, a monomorphism is an injective homomorphism. A monomorphism from to is often denoted with the notation X\hookrightarrow Y. In the more general setting of category theory, a monomorphis ...

, in abstract mathematics * Order of Mono, a Togolese order of chivalry * José María Gatica (1925–1963), Argentine boxer nicknamed "El Mono"