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.
They, as much as anyone, reject the concept of restrictive monoliths.
Thus, it became necessary to document and study the monoliths at night, using the battery of an automobile and lamps with low-voltage bulbs.
In this paper, we present a mathematical model developed for the thermal stress analysis in a catalytic combustor monolith.
A peat monolith was extracted and seen to contain three tephra layers.
Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith.
Reducing the middle class to a conservative monolith is an insupportable simplification.
The sampling unit was a monolith of 100 x 100 x 40 cm excavated from each quadrat.
The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc, pursuing its interests whatever they may be.
