monotone

Definition of monotone in English English dictionary: property of a function to be either decreasing or increasing; To speak in a monotone; A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound
When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.; having a single unvaried pitch
In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.; the sameness or monotony of utterance; sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"; a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts); Reproduction in one colour only; A single unvaried tone or sound; A function is monotone if, when one increases any of the inputs, the output never decreases (it can only increase or stay the same) A Boolean circuit is monotone if it consists only of AND and OR gates, no NOT gates; The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch; {i} same sound, repetitious tone, sameness of style; of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value; an unchanging intonation a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting; Printed with a single color, black or any color; If someone speaks in a monotone, their voice does not vary at all in tone or loudness and so it is not interesting to listen to. The evidence was read out to the court in a dull monotone; Printed with a single color, black or any color to top; an unchanging intonation; A monotone sound or surface does not have any variation in its tone or colour. He was seen on TV delivering platitudes about the crisis in a monotone voice. a sound or way of speaking or singing that continues on the same note without getting any louder or softer, and therefore sounds very boring; A melody with a relatively stationary melodic contour Monotone melodies tend to stick to one note, and can be rather dull; A sequence of numeric values is monotone (or monotonic) if either: each element in the sequence is larger than (or equal to) its predecessor, or each element in the sequence is smaller than (or equal to) its predecessor A sequence is monotonically increasing if each element in the sequence is larger than its predecessor; a sequence is monotonically decreasing if each element in the sequence is smaller than its predecessor A sequence is monotonically non-decreasing if each element in the sequence is larger than, or equal to, its predecessor A sequence is monotonically non-increasing if each element in the sequence is smaller than, or equal to, its predecessor
monotone function: a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases
monotones: plural of monotone

monotone

Hyphenation

mon·o·tone

Turkish pronunciation

mänıtōn

Pronunciation

/ˈmänəˌtōn/ /ˈmɑːnəˌtoʊn/

Etymology

[ 'mä-n&-"tOn ] (noun.) 1644. From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Koine Greek μονότονος (monotonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.

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