monolithic
adjUK /ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/ · US /ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
Etymology From French monolithique. By surface analysis, monolith + -ic.
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Of or resembling a monolith.
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Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.
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Figuratively Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- Mainstream culture is hardly the monolithic block that its caricaturization often implies.
- Farming today is industrial, and dominated by monolithic corporations who control almost all the food we eat.2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 71:
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Figuratively Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.
- In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.2020, L. S. Jayashree, G. Selvakumar, Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 103:
- Derived terms
- monolithically, monolithicity, monolithicness, monolithic programming, monorepo, nonmonolithic