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monoton — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • monotone adj Unvarying in pitch or tone; flat and unchanging in sound.
  • monotonic adj Relating to the modern Greek spelling system that dropped the old breathing marks and uses just one accent for stress, adopted in 1982.
  • monotonous adj Tediously repetitive or lacking variety.

Senses

monoton is used for these senses in English:

  • monotone (of speech or a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
  • monotonic (mathematics) Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
  • monotonous Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
  • monotonous Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

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 Relating to the modern Greek spelling system that dropped the old breathing marks and uses just one accent for stress, adopted in 1982.
  2. adj Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
  3. adj Spoken without any change in pitch; dull and flat-sounding.
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