单词 | monotonically |
释义 | monotonicallyadv.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adverb] > same pitch repeated monotonically1890 1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 100 Hear'st thou that rush of homeward-hurrying things, And word-calls monotonically harsh? 2. Mathematics and Science. In the manner of a monotonic function or sequence (see monotonic adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [adverb] > in the manner of specific functions syzygetically1852 monotonically1904 exponentially1909 monotonely1911 monotonously1912 holomorphically1957 1904 E. R. Hedrick tr. E. Goursat Course Math. Anal. I. iv. 148 A function f(x) is said to increase monotonically in a given interval (a, b) if for any two values x′, x″ in that interval f(x′)≧f(x″) whenever x′>x″. 1934 Amer. Math. Monthly 41 421 Equation (13) defines Y as a single-valued, continuous, monotonically decreasing function of X. 1958 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 66 164/2 The rate of solution should increase monotonically as the fresh solvent is brought up at ever increasing rate. 1974 Nature 2 Aug. 451/3 These provided the dramatic highlight of the programme, which declined monotonically in interest for its final hour. 1991 Personal Computer World Feb. 226/1 The numerators of the fractions decrease strictly monotonically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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