MONOTONIC

flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous

(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; “the owl’s faint monotonous hooting”

monotonic, monotone

(adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

monotonic (not comparable)

of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.

(mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Antonyms

• (using Greek system of diacritics): polytonic

Source: Wiktionary


Mon`o*ton"ic, Mon`o*ton"ic*al, a.

Definition: Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. "Monotonical declamation." Chesterfield.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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