English-French translations for monolith

• monolithe
  Ils savent que l’UE est précisément un monolithe de ce genre. They know that the EU is just such a monolith.
  Comme tout un chacun, ils rejettent le concept du monolithe restrictif. They, as much as anyone, reject the concept of restrictive monoliths.
  Il y a vingt ans, nous avons assisté à un mouvement héroïque de la classe ouvrière dans ces pays, qui a renversé le monolithe stalinien. Twenty years ago, we had an heroic movement of working people in those countries which brought down the Stalinist monolith.

Definition of monolith

• A large, single#Adjective|single block#Noun|block of stone#Noun|stone used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient time#Noun|times
• Anything massive, uniform#Adjective|uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering#Adjective|towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure#Noun|structure
• A substrate having many tiny channel#Noun|channels that is cast#Verb|cast as a single piece#Noun|piece, which is use#Verb|used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface#Noun|surface, etc

Related words

• monolithic
• monolithism
• monolithicity
• monolithicness
• monolithic device
• monolithic programming