different between monotony vs monotonic

English

Etymology

From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??n?t?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??n?t?ni/
• Hyphenation: mo?not?o?ny

Noun

monotony (plural monotonies)

1. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
2. (mathematics) The property of a monotonic function.
3. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.

Synonyms

• (tedium): boredom, sameness; see also Thesaurus:tedium

Antonyms

• polytony

Derived terms

• monotone
• monotonous

Translations

Anagrams

• ontonomy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (monótonos, “monotone”) +? -???? (-ikós, “-ic”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n??t?n?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n??t?n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

monotonic (not comparable)

1. 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.
2. (mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
3. Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.

Antonyms

• (using Greek system of diacritics): polytonic

Related terms

• antimonotonic
• monotone
• monotony
• monotonous
• monotonic decreasing
• monotonic increasing
• monotonic function

Translations

Further reading

• Greek diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Monotonic function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia