basic vs monotonic

basic

adj
  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

noun
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • Basic training. 

monotonic

adj
  • Uttered in a monotone; monotonous. 

  • said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases. 

  • of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982. 

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