Meaning of MONOTONE
| Pronunciation: | | 'mânu`town
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- [n] an unchanging intonation
- [adj] sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
- [adj] (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
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| | Synonyms: | | decreasing monotonic, drone, droning, increasing monotonic, monotonic, monotonous, unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonmonotonic | | |
| | See Also: | | intonation, modulation, pitch contour | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mon"o*tone\, n. [See {Monotonous}, {Monotony}.]
1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound.
2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or
sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
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| | Related Terms: | | AF, alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, array, articulation, assonance, assonant, audio frequency, banausic, bank, belabored, blah, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, chanting, chime, chiming, cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, concatenation, connection, consecution, constancy, continuum, course, cycle, daily round, descent, dim, dingdong, dreary, drone, droning, endless belt, endless round, even pace, even tenor, file, filiation, frequency, fundamental, fundamental tone, gamut, gradation, harmonic, harping, hum, humdrum, Indian file, intonation, invariability, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot, labored, line, lineage, monologue, monotonic, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, nexus, orderliness, overtone, partial, partial tone, pedestrian, pendulum, periodicity, pitch, pitter-patter, plenum, poky, powder train, progression, queue, range, rank, recurrence, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, reticulation, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, rotation, round, routine, row, run, sameliness, sameness, scale, sequence, series, single file, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, soniferous, sonorous, sounded, sounding, spectrum, stale repetition, stodgy, string, succession, swath, tedious, tedium, thread, tier, tonal, tone, toneless, tonelessness, train, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, unnecessary repetition, unvariation, windrow |
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