Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monotone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monotone \Mon"o*tone\, n. [See {Monotonous}, {Monotony}.]
1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound.
2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or
sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monotone
adj 1: (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently
increasing and never decreasing or consistently
decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: {monotonic}]
[ant: {nonmonotonic}]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {monotonic}, {monotonous}]
n : an unchanging intonation [syn: {drone}, {droning}]
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