Timeline for Word for 'internal uniformity of an object'
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| Feb 8, 2014 at 11:02 | vote | accept | MikeRand | ||
| Feb 8, 2014 at 11:02 | comment | added | MikeRand | "Indivisible" in the sense that the parts of it are not an object of a different class of objects. For example, the parts of a homogeneous neighborhood are people, which are a different class of object from the neighborhood itself. But the parts of a monolithic rock are just smaller pieces of rock, which isn't really a meaningful class. | |
| Feb 8, 2014 at 6:37 | comment | added | Dolda2000 | I find your analysis a bit strange, actually. If an object is indivisible, how can you compare two parts of it and find that they are uniform with each other? | |
| Feb 8, 2014 at 6:07 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 9:06 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @Kris The OP's use of "indivisible" appears to means "separable into individual components". A bar of soap is not so separable. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 8:36 | comment | added | Kris | @AndrewLeach A bar of soap is not indivisible in the conventional sense. I am not sure how you interpret the word. 'Not made of small(er) blocks of soap' is not it. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 7:20 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | A single bar of soap is both homogeneous [made of one substance] and indivisible [not made of small blocks of soap]. I think the issue is the assumption about homogeneous, which I don't associate with being "a composite of smaller objects" at all. I think that's exactly the word which is called for here. | |
| Feb 7, 2014 at 7:07 | comment | added | Kris | Can you include an example of what you visualize as could be both indivisible and homogeneous at the same time? There is unlikely to be a term for the combination because such an entity is just as unlikely, or at least defies logic. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:59 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:55 | comment | added | Canis Lupus | If you are talking about organizations, any referrence to size in the definition of monolithic is specious. A small family operated business can be considered monolithic, for example. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:55 | answer | added | Jon Hanna | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | Canis Lupus | Integrated circuits (microchips) are also referred to as "monolithic". In this case, size does not matter. Other monolithic electronic components exist, too (digikey.com/Web%20Export/Supplier%20Content/Murata_490/PDF/…) and the term "monolithic" is very common in this regard. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | Jeremy | I could be wrong, but I think your analysis is pretty thorough. I don't think you're going to find another, MORE appropriate word. I agree that monolithic has certain implication and I'd be likely to go with "uniform and indivisible". | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 23:27 | history | asked | MikeRand | CC BY-SA 3.0 |