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
- 'Later no harm' is a voting criterion that many ordinary voters consider far more important than 'monotonicity'. How Oscar Nomination Balloting Works | /Film
- monotonic uninflected speech
- The determination of titratable acidity in apple, grape, strawberry was conducted by monotonic titration(MET) using automatic potentiometric titrator.
- Hypercapnia increased pulmonary ventilation monotonically, with the average value rising to 181% of baseline at 12% CO2.
- An elastoplasticity damage constitutive model (EPDI model) was developed to unitedly characterize monotonic and cyclic behavior of interface between structure and coarse grained soil.
- If there is no Krebs cycle, no metabolism and no more ATP to phosphorylate peptides in kinase activity etc, then that organism is simply dead — and it is in equilibrium, or is on a monotonic course to equilibrium as it decays or is consumed by other organisms. A Dark, Misleading Force
- In short, in ceasing to be homogenous, they cannot escape their own monotonicity.
- Although McDermott and Doyle's terminology is different from Reiter's, the logical ideas are very similar ” the essence of their approach, like Reiter's, is a fixpoint definition of the extensions of a nonmonotonic logic. Logic and Artificial Intelligence
- Accordingly, researchers in logic-based AI have put a lot of effort into developing a variety of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms, such as circumscription (McCarthy 1986), and investigating their application to the frame problem. The Frame Problem
- The equilibrium constant decreases monotonically approximately fourfold when the salt concentration is increased from 0.15 to 0.25 M.