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monòton — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • monotone adj Unvarying in pitch or tone; flat and unchanging in sound.
  • monotonic adj 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.
  • monotonous adj Tediously repetitive or lacking variety.

Senses

monòton is used for these senses in English:

  • monotonic (mathematics) Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

monotone — full definition

  1. adj Unvarying in pitch or tone; flat and unchanging in sound.
  2. noun A flat, unvarying tone or way of speaking.

monotonic — full definition

  1. adj 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. adj Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
  3. adj Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.