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Adjective
monadic- of, or relating to a monad
- univalent
- of, or related to the Monas genus of microorganisms
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Monad may refer to:
In philosophy:
- Monad (symbol) a term used by ancient philosophers Pythagoras, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus as a term for God or the first being, or the totality of all being.
- Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory
- Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism
- Monadology, a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality
- Monadologia Physica by Immanuel Kant
- The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica
In mathematics and computer science:
- Monad (category theory), a construction in category theory
- Monadic predicate calculus is a form of logic based on unary operators
- Monad (functional programming), type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of computation
In music:
- Monad (music), a single note, in contradistinction to a dyad, triad, tetrad, etc
In proper names and popular culture:
- Monad (Technocracy), the symbol of Technocracy Incorporated and the Technocratic movement of North America
- 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
monadic in German: Monade
monadic in French: Monad
monadic in Japanese: モナド (曖昧さ回避)
monadic in Dutch: Monade
monadic in Portuguese: Mônada
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monadic in Swedish: Monad