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   monolithic

   /ˌmɒnəˈlɪθɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. formed of a single large block of stone: "later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually made of marble"
   • ▪ (of a building) very large and characterless: "IPC moved the paper from Covent Garden to the monolithic King's Reach Tower" Similar massivehugevastcolossalgiganticimmensegiantenormousmammothmonumentalfeaturelesscharacterlessfaceless
   • 2. (of an organization or system) large, powerful, indivisible, and slow to change: "rejecting any move towards a monolithic European superstate" Similar inflexiblerigidunbendingunchangingintractableimmovableimpenetrablefossilizedhideboundundifferentiateduniformunitary
   • 3. (of a solid-state circuit) composed of active and passive components formed in a single chip: "a video converter on a single monolithic chip"

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