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monotone |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Monotone \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: monotone adj 1: (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value [syn: {monotonic}] [ant: {nonmonotonic}] 2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {monotonic}, {monotonous}] n : an unchanging intonation [syn: {drone}, {droning}]
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