ADJECTIVE
- of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
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sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
the owl's faint monotonous hooting
How To Use monotonic In A Sentence
- 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) Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
- For a lethal recessive allele, mean frequency monotonically decreases as population size decreases.
- a decreasing monotonic function
- IRV can fail this criterion, as it did in the Burlington, VT mayoral election of 2009, as well as the monotonicity criterion discussed above. Matthew Yglesias » David Miliband Doesn’t Know What Century It Is
- Our documentation also says "There are various methods for 'approximating' strain based material data from the more readily available monotonic data such as tensile strength, modulus etc. All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
- No such phenomena have been reported in larger organisms, and the traditional theories for bacterial motion predict that the swimming speed monotonically decreases with viscosity.
- The number above each segment gives the rank of the absolute value of the monotonic increase or decrease.
- There are other considerations as well such as monotonicity for electronic sensing, but the point of this post is to get you thinking about possible errors and how they might affect, most especially, regional and global averages – in other words, what errors “average out” and what errors “add up”? Karl and Hansen Condemn Poor USHCN Metadata « Climate Audit
- Specifically, can chaotic behavior result in a single-loop feedback system with a nonmonotonic nonlinearity?