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Monad Latin for unit, comes from the Greek word monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", "unique") and may refer to:

Monad, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
*Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
*Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
*Monad (Chinese symbol), a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy.

Monad may also be:

non-standard analysis, a field in which a monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number
Monad (category theory), a type of functor
Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation

Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated
Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows: Monad its the codename

See also

Monadology

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