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monotone
has definitions from the fields of rhetoric,mathematics,music
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[ adjective ] (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Synonyms Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)Thus if e is sufficiently small , there can be only one intersection of C and **f near Q , for if there were more than one intersection for every e then the difference between C and **f near Q would not be a monotone function . The fact that there can not be any limit_points of the set except in closed_intervals follows from the argument used in Lemma 1 , namely , that near any tangent point in the C-plane the curves C and **f are analytic , and therefore the difference between them must be a monotone function in some neighborhood on either side of the tangent point . Related terms nonmonotonic mathematics increasing_monotonic decreasing_monotonic |
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[ adjective ] sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Synonyms Examples "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" Used in print (R. P. Jerrard, "Inscribed squares in plane curves"...)Furthermore , one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone , for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music) a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
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