monotonic

Meaning

Adjective

• of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
• said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
• Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Related

Opposite words

• polytonic

Origin

• From Ancient Greek μονότονος + -ικός.