monolithic

  1. Adjective.  Of or resembling a monolith.
  2. Adjective.  Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
  3. Adjective.  (computing, said of an operating system's kernel) consisting of a single program using a single memory-addressing space.

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