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Monolithic describes something that is one single, huge, solid block - like a mountain from one piece of rock. From there, people use it for anything big and uniform that feels impossible to change in small parts: a monolithic company, a monolithic government system, or in computer science, a monolithic program built as one giant piece instead of small separate parts. It often carries a slightly negative feeling - rigid, hard to update, not flexible.
巨大單一整體的；（系統）龐大僵化的
組成mono- (one) + lith (stone) + -ic
同家族的字
- monologueshares mono- meaning 'one' (one person speaking)
- lithographshares lith meaning 'stone'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
monolithicadj/ˌmɒn.əˈlɪθ.ɪk/
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Of or resembling a monolith.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesConsisting 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.
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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.
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Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
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computingengineeringmathematicsConsisting 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。