monolithic

Adjective

monolithic (comparative more monolithic, superlative most monolithic)

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. (figuratively) 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.2017, Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 71

   Synonyms:

   homogeneous

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

   Antonyms:

   modular