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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Word of the Day

11 May 2024

FATIGUE

(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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