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Neolithic vs Monolithic - What's the difference?

neolithic | monolithic |

As adjectives the difference between neolithic and monolithic

is that neolithic is (informal) hopelessly outdated while monolithic is of or resembling a monolith.

neolithic

Adjective

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  • Of or relating to the New Stone Age.
  • * 2001 , Duncan J. Melville, Tokens: the origin of mathematics
  • Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41).
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  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE.
  • Synonyms

    * New Stone Age

    Derived terms

    * Neolithic Revolution

    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)