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monotone
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mon·o·tone
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ˈmɒn
əˌtoʊn
/
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mon
-
uh
-tohn
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noun
1.
a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.
2.
a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.
3.
recitation or singing of words in such a tone.
4.
a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, especially in singing.
5.
sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.
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adjective
6.
monotonous
.
7.
consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color:
a monotone drape.
Compare
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(
defs 1, 2
)
.
8.
Mathematics
,
monotonic
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.
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an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.
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Origin:
1635–45;
<
French
monotone
<
Late Greek
monótonos
monotonous
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monotone
(ˈmɒnəˌtəʊn)
—
n
1.
a single unvaried pitch level in speech, sound, etc
2.
utterance, etc, without change of pitch
3.
lack of variety in style, expression. etc
—
adj
4.
unvarying or monotonous
5.
maths
Also:
monotonic
(of a sequence or function) consistently increasing or decreasing in value
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
monotone
"an unvarying tone in music or speaking," 1640s; see
monotony
. Related: Monotonic; monotonically.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Rank correlation is preserved under
monotone
transformations, which includes
the log.
He speaks only to announce his majority opinions, reading summaries in a gruff
monotone
.
The number of speeches he garbles in his heavily accented
monotone
can be
counted on the fingers of one hand.
For confirmation of the language thing, try standing with your back to a dog
and giving commands in a
monotone
.
He read his testimony as if working his way through the agate in a bond offering, his voice a dead-on-arrival
monotone
.
The computer then read her answer aloud, in a
monotone
and with all the wrong inflections.
From her dress to her makeup to her
monotone
answers, she was bland.
Why commonplace remarks that carry no emotion have to be made in a chanting
monotone
is a problem in art he cannot fathom.
And so on in an eternal
monotone
that seemed to both of them infinitely charming, infinitely new.
The details emerged in a
monotone
, her face expressionless.
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