monolithic
/ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or resembling a monolith.
adj
Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
adj
Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
adj
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."
Etymology
From French monolithique. By surface analysis, monolith + -ic.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: monolithique
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
- British English: /ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
Inflected Forms
more monolithic (comparative)
most monolithic (superlative)