monocoque noun & adjective. ['mɒnǝ(ʊ)kɒk] E20.
[French, from mono- MONO- + coque eggshell.]
A. noun.
1. An aircraft fuselage or other structure having an outer covering in the form of a rigid load-bearing shell, usu. without longerons or stringers. E20.

2. A motor vehicle underframe and body built as a single rigid structure (or in racing cars as a number of boxlike sections) throughout which the stresses are distributed. M20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Designating or based on a structure of this type. E20.

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