monotonic
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- adjective
- /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/
- Specialized
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monótono
- In mathematics, a function is considered monotonic if it consistently increases or decreases without any fluctuations.
- monotonic relationship
- monotonic trend
- monotonic functions
You keep sort of like there's a monotonic decrease of your weaknesses.
- You keep sort of like there's a monotonic decrease of your weaknesses.
Examples
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GCR trends (as seen in Graph 2) underwent a monotonic decrease from 1900 to 1970 and then leveled off.
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The functional form of the resources/participation relationship is generally monotonic: that is, most types of participation increase steadily as income rises.
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What both of these examples have in common is that Y is a monotonic function of X.
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Therefore, for the purposes of this study, only the results from monotonic analyses are considered.
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The points that appear to fall along a monotonic curve are those arising from clients with sensorineural losses.
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For the remaining phrases, there was a mixture of single-peaked and monotonic functions.
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Because what you're integrating here is simply a function which is monotonic decreasing with X.
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The linear association, consistently replicated in all analyses, showed a monotonic increase in logistic regression.
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The bivariate results show a monotonic but nonsignificant (p > .05) decline in self-response (the "All" category) with age.
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When we divided the POP levels into quintiles, we found monotonic relationships versus the number of arteries with plaques for the POPs described above (data not shown).
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Synonyms
Always going up or always going down without changing direction
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A list of numbers that never goes down and each number is the same or bigger than the one before
How Monotonic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Monotonic in math comes from the same parts, mono- 'one' and tonos 'tone', and a helpful way to remember it is to think of it as moving in 'one' way only. So a monotonic sequence or function always goes up or always goes down and never changes direction.