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mon·o·tone       [mon-uh-tohn] Pronunciation Key
–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, esp. in singing.
5.sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.
–adjective
6.monotonous.
7.consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape. Compare monochromatic (defs. 1, 2).
8.Mathematics. monotonic (def. 2).
[Origin: 1635–45; < F monotone < LGk monótonos monotonous]
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mon·o·tone       (mŏn'ə-tōn')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A succession of sounds or words uttered in a single tone of voice.
  2. Music
    1. A single tone repeated with different words or time values, especially in a rendering of a liturgical text.
    2. A chant in a single tone.
  3. Sameness or dull repetition in sound, style, manner, or color.

adj.  
  1. Characterized by or uttered in a monotone: a monotone recitation of names.
  2. Of or having a single color: a cat with a monotone coat.
  3. 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.


[From Greek monotonos, monotonous; see monotonous.]

mon'o·ton'ic (-tŏn'ĭk) adj., mon'o·ton'i·cal·ly adv.
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monotone

adjective
1. 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: flat] 

noun
1. an unchanging intonation 
2. a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts) 

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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.

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