monolithic
English
Etymology
From French monolithique; by surface analysis, monolith + -ic.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Adjective
monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)
- Of or resembling a monolith.
- Consisting of a single chunk of hard material rather than an assembly of discrete parts.
- A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.
- (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- Synonym: homogeneous
- Mainstream culture is hardly the monolithic bloc that its caricaturization often implies.
- 2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 71:
- Farming today is industrial, and dominated by monolithic corporations who control almost all the food we eat.
- (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
- (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- Antonym: modular
- Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.
- 2020, L. S. Jayashree; G. Selvakumar, Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 103:
- In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.
Derived terms
- monolithicity
- monolithicness
Related terms
- -ic
- lith-
- -lith
- lithic
- mono-
- monolith
Translations
of or resembling a monolith
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having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation
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