Monad

Monad may refer to:

Philosophy
  • Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" used by philosophers to signify various entities
  • Monadology by Gottfried Leibniz
  • Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
  • Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
  • Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant

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 (non-standard 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


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