monograph
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈmɒnəˌɡrɑf/
- Specialized
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monografía
- The professor published a monograph exploring the effects of climate change on coral reefs.
- monograph published
- research monograph
- Ecological Monographs
The way art history is controlled is through solo publications, monographs.
- The way art history is controlled is through solo publications, monographs.
- So in Russia it was published to monographs, our monographs, but in America they did not know.
Examples
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The widespread use of web analytics in libraries prompted the publication of Marek's monograph on the subject.
Academic text (2015) -
The discipline demands extensive use of monographs, and it is important to know how these scholars read text.
Academic text (2015) -
In college, I started a monograph on Carthage.
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Geoffrey gave me your monograph and I was reading up in the desert.
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Geoffrey gave me your monograph when I was reading up on the desert.
Fiction book (1996) -
Their work culminated in a monograph, The Masses of the Stars, which was published in 1940.
Academic text (1990) -
I have read several of his monographs in the Nuova Antologia.
Fiction book (2001) -
Significantly, Roediger's work has stimulated a series of monographs on the question.
Academic text (1999) -
On the lower end, the University of Iowa's collection consists of 75,000 monographs.
Academic text (2015) -
Hurlbert, S.H. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187-211.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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7.7
A long piece of writing for a university degree that shows the writer's research and results
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8.4
A long, detailed written work that explains a subject
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
monograph = mono + graph
The elements mono- and graph are recognizable, but the specialized meaning of a detailed treatise on a single subject is not fully predictable from the parts.
Etymology
The word monograph comes from the Greek parts mono- 'one' and -graph 'to write', like in autograph or photograph. So a monograph is a single, detailed written study about one subject, often by one author.