monograph

== English == === Etymology === From mono- (“one”) +‎ -graph (“write”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === monograph (plural monographs) A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects; especially, such a document that is written by one person. 1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24. I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT. (technical, archaic) A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication. (linguistics, uncommon) A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself. Coordinate terms: digraph, trigraph, polygraph ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === monograph (third-person singular simple present monographs, present participle monographing, simple past and past participle monographed) (transitive) To write a monograph on (a subject). (transitive, US) Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance). === Anagrams === nomograph, phonogram