Monolithic

/ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or resembling a monolith..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or resembling a monolith.
2. (engineering) Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
3. (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
4. (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
5. (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.

Example Sentences

A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.

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.

Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.

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.

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• more monolithic
• most monolithic

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