monolithic

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French monolithique.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪθɪk

Adjective

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

1. Of or resembling a monolith.
2. 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.

3. (computing, said of an operating system's kernel) consisting of a single program using a single memory-addressing space

Antonyms

• (computing): modular

Derived terms

• monolithicity
• monolithicness

Related terms

• monolith (noun)

Translations

of or resembling a monolith

• Catalan: monolític
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巨石 (zh) (Jùshí), 一块石头似的

• Finnish: monoliittinen (fi)
• French: monolithique (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: monolithisch (de)
• Greek: μονολιθικός (el) m (monolithikós)
• Irish: monailiteach
• Japanese: 一枚岩の (ichimaiiwa no)
• Spanish: monolítico

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

• Catalan: monolític
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整體／整体 (zh) (zhěngtǐ)一統／一统 (zh) (zhěngtǐyītǒng), 坚如磐石的

• Finnish: monoliittinen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: monolithique (fr)
• German: monolithisch (de)
• Irish: monailiteach
• Japanese: 一枚岩の (ichimaiiwa no)
• Spanish: monolítico