monotone
Speech parts
1. monotone - Noun
2. monotone - Adjective
3. monotone - Verb
4. monotone - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A single unvaried tone or sound.
The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
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Examples
the owl's faint monotonous hooting
By 1900 the medium in both color and monotone was an accepted part of printmaking.
Some notable special monotone functions are order embeddings (functions for which x ≤ y if and only if f(x) ≤ f(y)) and order isomorphisms ( surjective order embeddings).
Dynkin's π-λ theorem This theorem (or the related monotone class theorem ) is an essential tool for proving many results about properties of specific σ-algebras.
Eckman, p. 264. Filet crochet is usually constructed from monotone crochet thread made of Mercerised cotton in white or ecru, and worked in rows.
Likewise, one can describe the completion process as a functor from the category of posets with monotone functions to some category of complete lattices with appropriate morphisms that is left adjoint to the forgetful functor in the converse direction.