Monotonic \Mon`o*ton"ic\, Monotonical \Mon`o*ton"ic*al\, a.
1. Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
"Monotonical declamation." --Chesterfield.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Math.) Always increasing or always decreasing, as the
value of the independent variable increases; -- of a
function.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
monotonic
adj 1: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never
decreasing or consistently decreasing and never
increasing in value [syn: monotone] [ant: nonmonotonic]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: monotone, monotonous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
monotonic
In domain theory, a function f : D -> C is monotonic (or
monotone) if
for all x,y in D, x f(x)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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