Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. 1 the cultivation of a single crop 2 a culture that lacks diversity
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In computer science, a monoculture is a community of computers that all run identical software. All the computer systems in the community thus have the same vulnerabilities, and, like agricultural monocultures, are subject to catastrophic failure in the event of a successful attack.
The concept is significant when discussing computer security and viruses. Clifford Stoll wrote in 1989 after dealing with the Morris worm:
Dan Geer has argued that Microsoft is a monoculture, since a majority of the overall number of workstations connected to the Internet are running versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, many of which are vulnerable to the same attacks.
Monoculture is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Sainthood Reps. It was produced by Mike Sapone and released on August 9, 2011, by Tooth & Nail Records.
Usage examples of "monoculture".
I imagined innumerable fields devoted to a monoculture of dumpling bushes.
It has given the Right in all its varieties a chance to break through the liberal monoculture and be heard.
Compare this to the traditional monoculture with rows and rows of the same plant.
The oppressive ubiquity of contrived American monoculture has ingested and eliminated any threat of character.
This was the hydroponic monoculture logic-resistant kudzu-gene Frankenfood kind.
And running a polyculture is going to be expensive enough that local monocultures will have a competitive edge .
The courses themselves are monocultures of hybrid grasses maintained with industrial doses of fertilizer and herbicides, the grass groomed until it resembles nothing else found in Nature.
Not a monoculture: these were old plantations, interplanted with secondary and tertiary crops in a careful balance to maximize both production and resilience.
And running a polyculture is going to be expensive enough that local monocultures will have a competitive edge .
The courses themselves are monocultures of hybrid grasses maintained with industrial doses of fertilizer and herbicides, the grass groomed until it resembles nothing else found in Nature.