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MONOTONIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Example:
the owl's faint monotonous hooting
Synonyms:
flat; monotone; monotonic; monotonous
Classified under:
Similar:
unmodulated (characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume)
Derivation:
monotone (an unchanging intonation)
monotone (a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Synonyms:
monotone; monotonic
Classified under:
Similar:
decreasing monotonic (consistently decreasing)
increasing monotonic (consistently increasing)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Antonym:
nonmonotonic (not monotonic)
