monotonic

adj
/ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/UK/ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪk/US/ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/CA/ˌmɔnəˈtɔnɪk/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “monotone”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), equivalent to monotone + -ic.

Definitions

  1. Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a…

    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.

  2. Of a function

    Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

  3. Uttered in a monotone

    Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

    • The Same Spade talk-alike, super-cynical heroine of the piece is named Emma Victor, and there's no end to her rapid-fire, monotonic, street-smart patter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monotonic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA