monotonic vs monotonous
Definitions
adjective
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
Examples
Monotonic search is usually efficient in space, because the searcher does not have to construct each state's representation from scratch.
I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)
For a lethal recessive allele, mean frequency monotonically decreases as population size decreases.
Definitions
adjective
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Examples
The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
Viceroy's voice was still a monotonous drone, and I wanted to slap him just to see that he could still talk and/or yell with emotion.
