monolithic

adj

Etymology: From French monolithique. By surface analysis, monolith + -ic.

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

   “A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.”

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

   “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.”

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

   “Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.”

5. Consisting of a single program or codebase.

   “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.”