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Adjective: monotonic  ,mó-nu'tó-nik
  1. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
    "the owl's faint monotonic hooting";
    - flat, monotone, monotonous
     
  2. (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
    "The function f(x) = 2x + 1 is monotonic";
    - monotone, monotonous

See also: decreasing monotonic, increasing monotonic, unmodulated

Encyclopedia: Monotonic