MONOTONE


Meaning of MONOTONE in English

/mon"euh tohn'/ , n.

1. a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone.

2. a single tone without harmony or variation in pitch.

3. recitation or singing of words in such a tone.

4. a person who is unable to discriminate between or to reproduce differences in musical pitch, esp. in singing.

5. sameness of tone or color, sometimes to a boring degree.

adj.

6. monotonous.

7. consisting of or characterized by a uniform tone of one color: a monotone drape. Cf. monochromatic (defs. 1, 2).

8. Math. monotonic (def. 2).

[ 1635-45; monotone monótonos MONOTONOUS ]

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