monolithic

From French monolithique; by surface analysis, monolith +‎ -ic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑ.nəˈlɪθ.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪθɪk

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

1. Of or resembling a monolith.
2. (engineering) 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. (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.

   Synonym: homogeneous

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

   • 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.

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

   Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.

5. (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.

   Antonym: modular

   Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.

   • 2020, L. S. Jayashree, G. Selvakumar, Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things […] , Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 103:

     In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.