monad

Monad may refer to:

==Philosophy== Monad (philosophy), a term meaning "unit" Monism, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism Great Monad, an older name for the taijitu symbol Monadologia Physica, by Immanuel Kant La Monadologie, by Gottfried Leibniz, a book about a basic unit of perceptual reality Monas Hieroglyphica, a 1564 book by John Dee describing a symbol of his own invention