Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monotonic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monotonic \Mon`o*ton"ic\, Monotonical \Mon`o*ton"ic*al\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
``Monotonical declamation.'' --Chesterfield.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monotonic
adj 1: (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently
increasing and never decreasing or consistently
decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: {monotone}]
[ant: {nonmonotonic}]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {monotone}, {monotonous}]
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