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Difference Between Monotonous and Monotonic

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Monotonous

Sounded or spoken in an unvarying tone
A monotonous droning voice.

Monotonic

(of a function or quantity) varying in such a way that it either never decreases or never increases.

Monotonous

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety.

Monotonic

Speaking or uttered with an unchanging pitch or tone
Her dour, monotonic husband

Monotonous

Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
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Monotonic

A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.

Monotonous

Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.

Monotonic

A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.

Monotonous

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.

Monotonic

A chant in a single tone.
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Monotonous

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;
The owl's faint monotonous hooting

Monotonic

Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.

Monotonous

Tediously repetitious or lacking in variety;
A humdrum existence; all work and no play
Nothing is so monotonous as the sea

Monotonic

Characterized by or uttered in a monotone
A monotone recitation of names.

Monotonic

Of or having a single color
A cat with a monotone coat.

Monotonic

Also mon·o·ton·ic (mŏn′ə-tŏnĭk) Mathematics Designating sequences, the successive members of which either consistently increase or decrease but do not oscillate in relative value. Each member of a monotone increasing sequence is greater than or equal to the preceding member; each member of a monotone decreasing sequence is less than or equal to the preceding member.

Monotonic

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.

Monotonic

(mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

Monotonic

Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Monotonic

Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.

Monotonic

Always increasing or always decreasing, as the value of the independent variable increases; - of a function.

Monotonic

Of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value

Monotonic

Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch;
The owl's faint monotonous hooting

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