Crossword clues for monotonic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monotonic \Mon`o*ton"ic\, Monotonical \Mon`o*ton"ic*al\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. ``Monotonical declamation.''
--Chesterfield.(Math.) Always increasing or always decreasing, as the value of the independent variable increases; -- of a function.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. 2 (context mathematics English) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases. 3 Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.
WordNet
adj. of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: monotone] [ant: nonmonotonic]
sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: monotone, monotonous]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "monotonic".
Diamond, or sat near him, his head bowed to pick up the flow of clipped monotonic directives.
When finally he spoke, his voice was soft and monotonic, as if communication was a pointless burden.
Although plebeian and monotonic, Stage I is wholesome and honest, and Hel enjoyed his time spent in that rank, regretting only that so many people are sensationally crippled by their cultures and can accept the strong, sweaty lovemaking of Stage I only when disguised as romance, love, affection, or even self-expression.
Pitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lake.
The announcer on the overseas “feed” was speaking in the monotonic drone peculiar to such satellite transmissions.
Instead, there was the monotonic voice of a recorded operator that had the effect of crashing thunder.
Music for the dances came from tambourines and crude xylophones, the rhythm being maintained by the monotonic beat of the tom-tom.
The monotonic, strangely disembodied voice alerted Flor to the electronic code guarding the conversation.
Kurtzman's resynthesized, monotonic voice hissed from Gadgets's radio.
Andrea tried calling her friends, but most of the calls simply returned the monotonic recording announcing that the number was unknown.
There were three other men in robes flanking Carlane, their heads bowed, chanting a low, monotonic response, and a group of worshippers, about twenty, down in the main area of the church, were waving their hands overhead and repeating the response.
A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will generalize to any other is an invariant monotonic function of the distance between them.