Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a monotonic or monotonous manner.
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- adverb In a
monotonic manner, pertaining to the Greek system ofdiacritics which discards the breathings and employs a singleaccent to indicatestress - adverb mathematics In a
monotonic manner, of afunction that either neverdecreases or neverincreases as its independent variable increases
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Examples
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Nor as if liberty has been monotonically decreasing worldwide or in a portion of theworld.
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The remaining temperature trend, they reasoned, is at least in part, and almost certainly in large part, due to the monotonically increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.
Bill Chameides: Global Warming: What Happens When You Factor Out the Other Factors Bill Chameides 2011
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The remaining temperature trend, they reasoned, is at least in part, and almost certainly in large part, due to the monotonically increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases.
Bill Chameides: Global Warming: What Happens When You Factor Out the Other Factors Bill Chameides 2011
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Today is the most physically miserable I've been in quite awhile, and while the vertigo has been generally improving, it has not been monotonically improving.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway alecaustin 2009
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Problem #1: The traditional bookstore event typically features a nervous author nobody has heard of reading monotonically from their newly released book (that no one has heard of).
Praveen Madan: Creating New Literary Experiences: Because Amazon Can't Help You Make Friends 2010
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Nor as if liberty has been monotonically decreasing worldwide or in a portion of theworld.
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I found Doug Hoffman gawking at the chamber's ornate ceiling, indulging what he monotonically insisted is a deep passion for architecture, chatting with his wife Carol and the Rev. Jason McGuire, the lobbyist here who opposes same-sex marriage on behalf of a group called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.
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However, the biases in simulations monotonically increase with the value of the restoring constant, reaching their highest levels in the models without restoring [62].
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I found Doug Hoffman gawking at the chamber's ornate ceiling, indulging what he monotonically insisted is a deep passion for architecture, chatting with his wife Carol and the Rev. Jason McGuire, the lobbyist here who opposes same-sex marriage on behalf of a group called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.
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"We'd be very, very lucky indeed if by April we had access to the money," Mr. Saland said monotonically.
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