monograph

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a detailed scholarly work devoted to one subject or a closely related group of subjects

   The historian published a monograph on trade in medieval port cities.

2. 2
   noun

   a nonserial publication issued as one volume or as a finite set of volumes

   The library catalogs the report as a monograph rather than a periodical.

From Modern Latin monographia, formed from Greek mono- ("single, one") and -graphia ("writing, description"). The word therefore names a work written about one subject.

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