0 a large block of stone standing by itself that was put up by people in ancient times
1 a very large building, often one that is very tall
2 a large, powerful organization that is not willing to change and that does not seem interested in individual people:
He said that the National Health Service had become a vast bureaucratic monolith.
3 a group of people who are thought of as being all the same:
The study documented the diverse backgrounds of the Latino population, which is often viewed wrongly by outsiders as an ethnic monolith.
Five monoliths 50 cm x 50 cm in area were sampled in o each community type.
Extensive studies of elastic and thermal properties of two-dimensional catalytic combustor monoliths have also been discussed.
We consider only those cases where the materials of which catalytic monoliths are made are isotropic and homogeneous.
Although catalytic monoliths may involve a great variety of prismatic geometries, we will only study structures whose cells have square, triangular or hexagonal cross-sections.
If so, the monoliths could originally have been intended as stelae, then used in horizontal position.
A few, although uncarved, appear to have been modified monoliths whose function remains enigmatic; others are sculptures.
The number of actors would equal the number of parties in the first approximation, assuming that parties behave like monoliths (which is of course an oversimplification).
The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc, pursuing its interests whatever they may be.
