monolith

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.

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.

The conference chairman, Alois Jungbauer, Ph.D., professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, defined a monolith as a continuous stationary-phase cast as a homogeneous column in a single piece. Monoliths are further characterized by a highly interconnected network of channels, most with sizes ranging from 1 to 5 µm. The adsorptive surface is directly accessible to solutes as they pass through the column.

https://ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATF_book.pdf#page=99 page 98 If a stub is to be retained, either for the reasons stated above, or when a tree is to be reduced to a "monolith" …, unconventional methods of cutting or fracturing (not recommended in BS 3998) may be employed, … https://ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATF_book.pdf#page=148 page 147 Even dead standing or fallen trees are important, and so owners should be encouraged to be untidy-minded and to leave monoliths or fallen dead wood in situ.