Monotonic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Monotonic \Mon`o*ton"ic\, Monotonical \Mon`o*ton"ic*al\, a.
     1. Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
        "Monotonical declamation." --Chesterfield.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Math.) Always increasing or always decreasing, as the


        value of the independent variable increases; -- of a
        function.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monotonic
       adj 1: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never
              decreasing or consistently decreasing and never
              increasing in value [syn: {monotone}] [ant: {nonmonotonic}]
       2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
          faint monotonous hooting" [syn: {monotone}, {monotonous}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  monotonic
       
          In {domain theory}, a function f : D -> C is monotonic (or
          monotone) if
       
          	for all x,y in D,  x <= y  =>  f(x) <= f(y).
       
          ("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\sqsubseteq}).
       
          (1994-11-24)