Monograph

Quick meaning: Monograph is a noun meaning (linguistics, uncommon) A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself.

Meaning

(linguistics, uncommon) A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject).
2. (transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance).
3. A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects; especially, such a document that is written by one person.
4. (technical, archaic) A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication.

Example Sentences

Crooke made a few references to two of his monographs (1896a and 1896b) but did not take quotations from his own works.

It is among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century.

The complex history of the Wirral Railway and the lines with which it was interlinked needs more lucid treatment than is given in this 39-page monograph - and clearer maps and an index.

1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24. I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.

Word Forms

• monographs
• monographing
• monographed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include treatise, study, labeling, book, report, specification.

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