monotone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: monotone	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for monotone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
monotone adj of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value Synonym(s): monotonic, monotone Antonym(s): nonmonotonic sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" Synonym(s): flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous n an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone, droning] a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monotone \Mon"o*tone\, n. [See {Monotonous}, {Monotony}.] 1. (Mus.) A single unvaried tone or sound. 2. (Rhet.) The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.