Monotone refers to a sound, for example music or speech, that has a single unvaried tone. See
pure tone and
monotonic scale.
Monotone or monotonicity may also refer to:
In economics
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Monotone preferences, a property of a consumer's preference ordering.
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Monotonicity (mechanism design), a property of a social choice function.
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Monotonicity criterion
Electoral system criteria
In social choice, the negative response, perversity, or additional support paradox is a pathological behavior of some voting rules where a candidate loses as a result of having too much support (or wins because of in ...
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Resource monotonicity, a property of resource allocation rules and bargaining systems.
In mathematics
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Monotone class theorem, in measure theory
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Monotone convergence theorem, in mathematics
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Monotone polygon, a property of a geometric object
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Monotonic function
In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order. This concept first arose in calculus, and was later generalized to the more abstract setting of or ...
, a property of a mathematical function
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Monotonicity of entailment, a property of some logical systems
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Monotonically increasing, a property of number
sequence
In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed and order matters. Like a set, it contains members (also called ''elements'', or ''terms''). The number of elements (possibly infinite) is cal ...
Other uses
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Monotone (software), an open source revision control system
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Monotonic orthography, simplified spelling of modern Greek
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The Monotones, 1950s American rock and roll band
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Quantifier monotonicity, in formal semantics
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"Monotone" (song), a song by Yoasobi for 2024 animated film ''Fureru''
*"Monotone", a song by American alternative rock band
Splender
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