monotonic
adj/ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/UK/ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪk/US/ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/CA/ˌmɔnəˈtɔnɪk/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “monotone”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), equivalent to monotone + -ic.
Definitions
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.
Of a function
Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
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
- antonymantonym(s) of
- neighborantimonotonic
- neighbormonotone
- neighbormonotonic decreasing
- neighbormonotonic function
- neighbormonotonic increasing
- neighbormonotonous
- neighbormonotony
Derived
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