monolithic

comparative more monolithic · superlative most monolithic

1. Of or resembling a monolith.
2. engineeringConsisting 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. figurativelyHaving a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.

   Mainstream culture is hardly the monolithic block that its caricaturization often implies.

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   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

   Synonyms: homogeneous

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

   Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.

5. computingConsisting of a single program or codebase.

   Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.

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   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

   Antonyms: modular