monotonic
[mon-uh-ton-ik]
- of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone: a monotonic delivery of a lecture.
- Mathematics.
- (of a function or of a particular set of values of a function) increasing or decreasing.
- (of an ordered system of sets) consisting of sets such that each set contains the preceding set or such that each set is contained in the preceding set.
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Origin of monotonic
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Examples from the Web for monotonic
Contemporary Examples of monotonic
Before Dookie, guitar rock meant grunge: heavy, monotonic, humorless, and bleak.
Historical Examples of monotonic
They were attractive enough, but the monotonic fatkins devotion to sybartism was so tiresome.
MakersCory Doctorow