Monolithic Definition

mŏnə-lĭthĭk
adjective
Constituting a monolith.
A monolithic sculpture.
American Heritage
Massive, solid, and uniform.
The monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture.
American Heritage
Constituting or acting as a single, often rigid, uniform whole.
A monolithic worldwide movement.
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Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.

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

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Monolithic Sentence Examples

  • A pair of monolithic columns, disengaged, flank each facade.

  • Typical examples of monolithic cast in-situ RC bond beams with RC slabs are shown below on Figure 13.

  • A fine belfry (12th, 13th and 15th centuries) commanding the town is built on the terrace, beneath which are hollowed in the rock the oratory and hermitage of St Emilion, and adjoining them an ancient monolithic church of considerable dimensions.

  • The Fox Island granite comes from the quarries on Vinalhaven Island and the surrounding islands, and on Vinalhaven were quarried monolithic columns 51.5 to 54 ft.

  • Noteworthy among the buildings within the ancient citadel is a small tetrastyle temple, variously ascribed to Jupiter and Minerva, the portico supported by six monolithic columns of cippolino, four being in front.

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