Monotone

Definition: Monotone

Monotone

Adjective

1. (mathematics) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value.

2. Sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting".

Noun

1. An unchanging intonation.

Date "monotone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Note: Monotone \Mon"o*tone\, noun. [See Monotonous, Monotony.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Monotone

Synonyms: monotonic (adj), monotonous (adj), drone (n), droning (n). (additional references)

Antonym: nonmonotonic (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Monotone

English words defined with "monotone": chanted ♦ Monotonical ♦ tonelessly. (references)

Specialty definitions using "monotone": monotone priority queue, monotone regression. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Monotone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (dull, flat, humdrum, monotone, monotonous, ponderous, routine, slow, stupid), German (monotonously).

Domain	Title
Books	Dynamical Zeta Functions for Piecewise Monotone Maps of the Interval (Crm Monograph, Vol 4) (reference) Modified Lagrangians and Monotone Maps in Optimization (reference) Monotone Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to the Theory of Competitive and Cooperative Systems (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 41) (reference) Monotone operators and applications in control and network theory (reference) Monotone Operators in Banach Space and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 49) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Monotone Mountain Ep [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Beat; thundering; monotone; .
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They may speak too softly or in a monotone, hesitate before speaking, slur or repeat their words, or speak too fast. A speech therapist may be able to help patients reduce some of these problems. (references)
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"Monotone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monotone" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	68	40,606

Expressions using "monotone": monotone regression ♦ monotone tone ♦ monotone voice. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "monotone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		monotoni (monody, monotony), monoton (drab, even, flat, jogtrot, monotonous, singsong, toneless, unrelieved), uniform (equable, measured, monotonous), i mërzitur (annoyed, blue, bored, creepy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, down-hearted, fed up, gloomily, gloomy, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, pained). (various references)

Arabic		‏اطراد رتيب, ‏آحادي النغم, ‏آحادي الصوت, ‏روتيني (bureaucratic, routine). (various references)

Bulgarian		чета монотонно, говоря монотонно (drone), монотонно говорене, монотонен (monotonous, singsong, uninspired, unrelieved, unvaried, vegetable), еднообразен (dead, flat, hack, humdrum, jogtrot, monotonous, tame, tedious, unenlivened, unleavened, unvaried), еднозвучие, пея монотонно (chant, drone). (various references)

Chinese		单调 (humdrum, monotonic, monotonous, monotony). (various references)

Danish		monoton sandsynlighedskvotient (monotone likelihood ratio), monoton regression (monotone regression). (various references)

Dutch		monotone regressie (monotone regression), monotone aannemelijkheidsverhouding (monotone likelihood ratio). (various references)

Farsi		تکرارهماهنگ , صدای یکنواخت . (various references)

Finnish		monotoninen uskottavuusosamäärä (monotone likelihood ratio), monotoninen regressio (monotone regression). (various references)

French		monotone (monotonous). (various references)

German		monotonie (monotony), monotoner klang, monotone stimme. (various references)

Greek		μονότονη ομιλία. (various references)

Hebrew		מו� וטו� יות (monotony), צליל ח�" �'ו� י. (various references)

Hungarian		egyhangúság (flatness, humdrum, monotony, unanimity). (various references)

Indonesian		nada datar. (various references)

Italian		tono uniforme. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex), 単調 (dullness, monotony), 一本調子 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"ちょう (bird-watching, dullness, Japanese crane, minor key, monotony, red-crested white crane), モノトーン , いっぽ�"ぢょうし. (various references)

Pig Latin		onotonemay

Portuguese		monotonia (blankness, dead level, drab, draggle-tail, humdrum, insipidity, monotype, platitude, sameness, traipse, vapidity), monoteísmo, monótono (arid, drab, dreary, flat, humeral, monotonous, repetitious, singsong, vapid, wearisome). (various references)

Romanian		monotonie (drab, monotony, sameness), repetare (encore, iteration, recurrence, reiteration, repetition), citire monotonã, caracter monoton. (various references)

Russian		монотонный (monotonic, monotonous, singsong, unrelieved). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		monotonija (monotony, tedium), jednotonsko pevanje, jednolikost (humdrum, sameness, uniformity, weariness), jedan ton, jedan glas. (various references)

Spanish		monótono (dead alive, drab, drear, dreary, humdrum, monotonous, prosy, repetitious, singsong). (various references)

Swedish		monoton (flat, monotonous), entonighet (monotony), entonig (monotonous). (various references)

Turkish		monotonluk (dinginess, dryness, flatness, monotonous, monotony, sameness, squirrel cage, tameness, uniformity), monoton ses, monoton şey (humdrum), monoton (drab, humdrum, monotonous, opaque, soul-destroying, soulless), tekdüze (drab, flat, humdrum, monotonous, singsong, soul-destroying, uniform). (various references)

Ukrainian		говорити монотонно, монотонність (level, monody, monotony, singsong), монотонний (dead alive, monotonous, repetitious, singsong, toneless). (various references)

Vietnamese		giọng đều đều (singsong). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "monotone": monotones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Monotone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: manstowe, Mininote, Mokoroane, monctone, monetae, Monobon, Monodon, monoton, monotrope, Montona, montonero, Muotome, notnotnot, omnopon, ononono. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "monotone" (pronounced mÄ"nutō'n)
4	-u t ō' n	acetone, baritone.
3	-t ō' n	bloodstone, Bluestone, brownstone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, gravestone, greenstone, grindstone, hailstone, halftone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, moonstone, overtone, rhinestone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, undertone, whetstone.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-m-n-n-o-o-o-t"
	-3 letters: monte, nomen, nonet, tenon, tonne.
	-4 letters: meno, mono, moon, moot, mote, neon, nome, none, noon, note, omen, onto, tome, tone, toom, toon.
	-5 letters: eon, men, met, mon, moo, mot, net, nom, noo, not, one, oot, ten, toe, tom, ton, too.
	Words containing the letters "e-m-n-n-o-o-o-t"
	+1 letter: monotones, moonstone.
	+2 letters: monotonies, moonstones, motoneuron.
	+3 letters: motoneurons.
	+4 letters: motoneuronal, noneconomist, nonemotional, nonmotorized.
	+5 letters: monocotyledon, nonautomotive, noncompetitor, noneconomists.
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