Monad
Monad, Latin for unit, comes from the Greek word
monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), and may refer to:
*Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles:
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Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
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Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
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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.
Other uses of
Monad include:
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Non-standard analysis, a field in which a
monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number
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Monad (category theory), a type of functor
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Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
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Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the
Technocratic movement).
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Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".
Monad Kiysuren a.k.a. Dj Turk
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Monadology
