mon·o·lith / ˈmänl-i[unvoicedth]/ • n. 1. a large single upright block of stone, esp. one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument. ∎  a very large and characterless building: the 72-story monolith overlooking the waterfront. ∎  a large block of concrete sunk in water, e.g., in the building of a dock.2. a large and impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as intractably indivisible and uniform: states struggling to break away from the Moscow-dominated communist monolith.

Monolith ★★½ 1993 (R)

Tucker (Paxton) and Flynn (Frost) are unlikely partners on the LAPD. But they're teamed up on an unlikely case: a Russian scientist commits a seemingly senseless murder and is taken away by a mystery man (Hurt) before she can be interrogated. What the curious duo discover is a lethal alien force capable of posessing any living creature and whose objective is the destruction of the planet. 96m/C VHS . Bill Paxton, Lindsay Frost, John Hurt, Louis Gossett Jr.; D: John Eyres; W: Stephen Lister.

monolith. Anything made of one piece of stone, e.g. an obelisk or column-shaft.