may refer to:
in philosphy:
- In Ancient Philosophy the term can refer to:
- --- Monad (Epicurus) , Epicurus described "monads" that were the smallest units of matter, much like Democritus's notion of an atom.
- --- Monad (symbol) , For many others, including Pythagoras, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus, Monad was a term for God or the first being, or the totality of all beings.
- Monad (Gnosticism) , the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism.
- the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory of Monism .
- ---'' Monadology '', a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality
- ---'' Physical Monadology '' by Immanuel Kant also dealt with this topic.
- In Hermetica , (a category of popular Late Antique literature purporting to contain secret wisdom) ''The Cup or Monad'' is one of the texts making up the ''Corpus Hermetica''.
- In early Biology , the indivisible life essence, either the cell or nucleus.
in mathematics:
- Monad (music) , a single note, in contradistinction to a dyad, triad, tetrad, and so on.
proper names and popular culture:
- Monad (Technocracy) , the symbol of Technocracy Incorporated and the Technocratic movement of the early 20th century.
- Windows PowerShell , a command line interface for Microsoft Windows code-named "Monad".
- Xmonad , a window manager for the X Window System
- ''John Monad'', title character of the television series John From Cincinnati
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