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mon·o·tone M0399800 (mŏn′ə-tōn′)n.1. A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.2. Music a. A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.b. A chant in a single tone.3. Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.adj.1. Characterized by or uttered in a monotone: a monotone recitation of names.2. Of or having a single color: a cat with a monotone coat.3. also mon·o·ton·ic (mŏn′ə-tŏn′ĭk) Mathematics Designating sequences, the successive members of which either consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative value. Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.
[From Greek monotonos, monotonous; see monotonous.]
mon′o·ton′ic (-tŏn′ĭk) adj.mon′o·ton′i·cal·ly adv.monotone (ˈmɒnəˌtəʊn) n1. a single unvaried pitch level in speech, sound, etc2. (Linguistics) utterance, etc, without change of pitch3. lack of variety in style, expression. etcadj4. unvarying or monotonous5. (Mathematics) maths Also: monotonic (of a sequence or function) consistently increasing or decreasing in valuemon•o•tone (ˈmɒn əˌtoʊn)
n. 1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone. 2. a single musical tone without variation in pitch. 3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone. 4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, esp. in singing. 5. any unrelieved sameness or boring repetition. adj. 6. monotonous. 7. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape. [1635–45; < French monotone < Late Greek monótonos monotonous] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | monotone - an unchanging intonationdroning, droneintonation, pitch contour, modulation - rise and fall of the voice pitch | | 2. | monotone - a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" | | Adj. | 1. | monotone - of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in valuemonotonicmath, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement | | 2. | monotone - sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"monotonic, monotonous, flatunmodulated - characterized by lack of variation in pitch, tone, or volume; "he lectured in an unmodulated voice edged with hysteria" |
monotonenounA tiresome lack of variety:humdrum, monotonousness, monotony, sameness.Translationsmonotontono monotonotono uniformemonotoneenUK
monotone Maths (of a sequence or function) consistently increasing or decreasing in value monotone[′män·ə‚tōn] (science and technology) A quantity which never increases (or which never decreases) as a function of some other quantity. Also known as monotonic. FinancialSeemt/secmonotoneenUK
Synonyms for monotonenoun a tiresome lack of varietySynonyms- humdrum
- monotonousness
- monotony
- sameness
Synonyms for monotonenoun an unchanging intonationSynonymsRelated Words- intonation
- pitch contour
- modulation
noun a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)Related Wordsadj of a sequence or functionSynonymsRelated Wordsadj sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitchSynonymsRelated Words |