OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 18653

monotone

/ˈmɒn.ə.təʊn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
monótono
Having a single unvaried pitch.
In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
monótono
Of a function: that is always nonincreasing or nondecreasing on an interval.
The function f(x)#58;#61;x³ is monotone on #92;R, while g(x)#58;#61;x² is not.