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Definition of Monotone

1. Adjective. Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value.

2. Noun. An unchanging intonation.

3. Adjective. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch. "The owl's faint monotonous hooting"

4. Noun. A single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts).

Definition of Monotone

1. n. A single unvaried tone or sound.

Definition of Monotone

1. Adjective. (context: of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics) property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing ¹

3. Noun. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound ¹

4. Verb. (ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monotone

1. a vocal utterance in one unvaried tone [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monotone

monotherapy monothermia monothetic monothioacetal monothioacetals monothioglycerol monothiohemiacetal monothiohemiacetals monothiophosphate monothiophosphates

monotint monotints monotocous monotomous monotonal monotone (current term) monotone function monotoned monotones monotonic

monotonic decreasing monotonic function monotonic functions monotonic increasing monotonic sequence monotonical monotonically monotonicities monotonicity monotonies

Literary usage of Monotone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for by Epes Sargent (1852)
"monotone. A monotone is intonation without change of pitch: that la, preserving a fulness of tone, without ascent or descent on the scale. ..."

2. Inequalities in Statistics and Probability: Proceedings of the Symposium on by Yung Liang Tong (1984)
"In these cases the monotone functions can be conveniently characterized. Convolution theorems for monotone functions are discussed. 1. Introduction. ..."

3. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"monotone. — 1. A succession of sounds on precisely the same line of pitch. 2. ... Pertaining to monotone. MONSEIGNEUR.— A title given to bishops and other ..."

4. Hand-book of Calisthenics and Gymnastics: A Complete Drill-book for Schools by James Madison Watson (1864)
"V. monotone monotone consists of a degree of sameness of sound, or tone, ... But very little variety of tone, or, in other words, the monotone, ..."

5. Independent Fifth Reader: Containing a Practical Treatise on Elocution by James Madison Watson (1880)
"monotone consists of a degree of sameness of tone, in a number of successive ... monotone USUALLY REQUIRES a low tone of the voice, loud or prolonged force, ..."

6. Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of by James Edward Murdoch, James Rush, George James Webb (1877)
"The " monotone " does not, it is true, occur so frequently as most other modifications of voice. But, from its special office, it acquires peculiar ..."

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