monolithic

English

Etymology

From French monolithique.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪθɪk

Adjective

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

Of or resembling a monolith.
Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- 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.
(computing, said of an operating system's kernel) consisting of a single program using a single memory-addressing space

Antonyms

(computing): modular

Derived terms

Related terms

monolith (noun)

Translations

of or resembling a monolith

Chinese:
Mandarin: 巨石 (zh) (Jùshí), 一块石头似的
Finnish: monoliittinen (fi)

French: monolithique (fr)
German: monolithisch (de)
Irish: monailiteach
Japanese: 一枚岩の (ichimaiiwa no)

having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation

Chinese:
Mandarin: 整體 (zh)一統 (zh) (zhěngtǐyītǒng), 坚如磐石的
Finnish: monoliittinen (fi)

French: monolithique (fr)
German: monolithisch (de)
Irish: monailiteach
Japanese: 一枚岩の (ichimaiiwa no)

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