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Monolithic vs Colossal - What's the difference?

monolithic | colossal |

As adjectives the difference between monolithic and colossal

is that monolithic is of or resembling a monolith while colossal is extremely large or on a great scale.

monolithic

English

Adjective

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

    * (computing) modular

    Derived terms

    * (monolithic kernel)

    colossal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely large or on a great scale.
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    Synonyms

    * (extremely large) enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See also