monotonic

IPA: mˈɑnʌtˈɑnɪk

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.
(mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Examples of "monotonic" in Sentences

"Venus In Furs" in all its monotonic glory. ♫ blip. fm/~3tzyn #
In light of the monotonic progression point, the former certainly makes sense.
I also think that there are certain kinds of intelligence, its not a monotonic scale.
No one should expect global climate change to be monotonic, with each year warmer than the last.
The fundamental flaw is looking at temperature changes as "monotonic" that is, inexorably heading upward.
It seems to me that the relationship is almost monotonic, with the only prolonged exceptions being Russia and much of East Asia under communism.
Prior to last week, I was always getting unsteady again before bedtime, so this still feels like progress, though obviously not monotonic progress.
Imagine a simple monotonic progression: fifty thousand, … eight thousand, … nineteen hundred, … three hundred, … ninety-two, … twelve, … five, … one, zero.
John Simm chewed up the scenery again and the writers had the courtesy and clarity to draw him not as a monotonic evil character but as someone deserving of at least a modicum of sympathy, from the viewers as well as from the Doctor.
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)