Mono

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For the numerical prefix mono- and words related to it see Wiktionary.

Mono may refer to:

[edit] Bands

• Mono (Japanese band), a Japanese post-rock band
• Mono (UK band), a British trip-hop band

[edit] Publications

• Mono (Fanzine), Bradford alternative rock music fanzine

[edit] Biology

• Infectious mononucleosis, also referred to as "glandular fever", the "kissing disease," and "mono."
• Monodactylus sebae, a fish species

[edit] Places

• Mono County, California
• Mono Department, Benin
• Mono Lake
• Mono, Ontario, Canada
• Mono River, Togo
• Mono Island, Solomon Islands

[edit] People

• Mono language
• Mono tribe, a tribe of Native Americans in California
• Mono, an important character in the video game Shadow of the Colossus

[edit] Technology

• Monaural, single channel or GTN audio
• Mono (software), an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET architecture
• Monochrome BBS, a bulletin board system originally based at City University, London
• Everson Mono, also known as Everson Mono Unicode, is an evenly spaced Unicode font (typeface).
• Mono jack, a TRS (Tip Ring Sleeve) connector plug, often used in audio electronic equipments. See Jack plug.
• m0n0wall is an embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD.
• Mono (game), a shmup game like Asteroids and Robotron put together.

[edit] Other languages

• Mono means monkey in Spanish
• In Peru it is used as a derogatory term to describe Ecuadorians.
• Mono also means 'cute' in some in some countries that use that form of Spanish slang
• Mono means 'thing' in Japanese
• Mono is Greek for 'only'
• In Colombia it means blond Person (Mono:Blond Man, Mona:Blond Woman)
• In Finnish, the word 'mono' translates to a ski boot

[edit] Other

• A mono is a type of rock climbing hand hold in which only one finger can be used.

[edit] See also

• Poly
• Solo (music)
• Stereo