monolithic

About 1.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or resembling a monolith.
2. adjective Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.

   This model of multitool dispenses with folding parts and presents a monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.

3. adjective Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.

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

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

   Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.

5. adjective Consisting of a single program or codebase.

   Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.

Similar words

monumental massive large big unvaried undiversified homogeneous unitary congenial whole

Often followed by

and structure integrated in entity or columns unity integration

Word family

monolithically