monotone vs monotonic

monotone

adj
  • Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function. 

  • Having a single unvaried pitch. 

verb
  • To speak in a monotone. 

noun
  • A piece of writing in one strain throughout. 

  • A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound. 

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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