monograph
[mon-uh-graf, -grahf]
- a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- a highly detailed and thoroughly documented study or paper written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: scholarly monographs on medieval pigments.
- an account of a single thing or class of things, as of a species of organism.
- to write a monograph about.
Origin of monograph
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Examples from the Web for monograph
Contemporary Examples
This monograph contains over 500 of his beautiful, emotional images as well as explores his life and development as an artist.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Andy Warhol in Your LifeAllison McNearney
November 29, 2014
In addition to his monograph, Mr. Perez released another book, Gilles Mendel by Enoc Perez, available this month at J. Mendel.
Franklin circulated the monograph among his friends and correspondents.
Her monograph on David Galula will be published by the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College this summer.
She recently published a monograph, Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad: Toward an Islam of Grace .
Historical Examples
Stemonitis dictyospora of Rostafinski's monograph, with spores 12 mic.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, OhioA. P. Morgan
It is Craterium cylindricum of Massee's monograph, according to Lister.
The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, OhioA. P. Morgan
Sherlock Holmes would certainly have considered it worthy of a monograph.
The Book-Hunter at HomeP. B. M. Allan
It is really a monograph on magnetism written in the thirteenth century.
Old-Time Makers of MedicineJames J. Walsh
Perhaps some one of my young readers may become the author of that monograph?
BruinMayne Reid
monograph
- a paper, book, or other work concerned with a single subject or aspect of a subject
- (tr) to write a monograph on
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Word Origin and History for monograph
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