monolithic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or resembling a monolith.

2. 2

   Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material…

   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.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      Of a single structure, a singular component

      Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.

      • Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
   2. 5

      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.

The neighborhood

• neighbor-ic
• neighborlith-
• neighbor-lith
• neighborlithic
• neighbormono-
• neighbormonolith