1formed 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
2(of an organization or system) large, powerful, indivisible, and slow to change:rejecting any move towards a monolithic European superstate
3 Electronics (of a solid-state circuit) composed of active and passive components formed in a single chip:a video converter on a single monolithic chip
