Monolith

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.

   “Tomb of Napoleon I. [...] Twelve colossal statues, by [James] Pradier, representing as many victories, stand against the pilasters, facing the tomb, consisting of an immense monolith of porphyry, weighing 135,000 lbs., and brought from Lake Onega in Finland at a cost of 140,000fr.”

2. isim Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.

   “It was the setting up of generalizations of the first kind in [Charles J.] Fillmore (1966a, b) and (1968a) that awarded case grammar the role of being, besides abstract syntax, the second crack in the transformational monolith of the late sixties.”

3. isim A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.

   “[W]ork performed by Gough et al. looked at the long-term culture (28 days) of craniofacial fibroblasts seeded on to monolith calcium/sodium phosphate glass surfaces.”

4. isim A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.

   “Stumps of older fallen trees, known as upright monoliths, have incredible environmental value and can provide a home and food source for insects for decades.”

5. fiil To create (something) as, or convert (one or more things) into, a monolith.

   “[Fatema] Mernissi constructs a single dominant view of sexuality among Muslims while she purports to be doing sociology or anthropology. [...] [I]s it Mernissi's contention that only Islam is monolithed in stone by an overarching patriarchy?”

6. fiil To cast (one or more concrete components) in a single piece with no joints.

   “It should be noted that the parapets, also monolithing with the decking slab, contribute an important share to the effective resistance of the work.”

7. fiil To reduce the height and size of (a dead tree) by breaking off or cutting its branches.

   “The go-ahead has been given to fell 23 Lawson cypress and ‘monolith’ (reduce to their main stems, without branches) four dead alder, which made up part of the woodland off Bickland Water Road.”

8. özel isim An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.