Meaning

3 senses
  1. (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.

  2. (not comparable)Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

    monoton

    of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

  3. (not comparable)Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Translations

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By meaning 1
mathematics: never decreasing or increasing as its independent variable increases:

Origin

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

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

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value:monotone
  • sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch:flatmonotonemonotonous

Antonyms

2 antonyms
antonym(s) of
nonmonotonic

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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