Definizione monolingua

monotone

monotone (third-person singular simple present monotones, present participle monotoning, simple past and past participle monotoned)

1. (ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

monotone (plural monotones)

1. A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound

   When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.

monotone (comparative more monotone, superlative most monotone)

1. (of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch
   • 1799, John Walker, Elements of Elocution, Cooper and Wilson, page 309:

     It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at fir?t in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ?onorous and audible than when the voice ?lides up and down at almo?t every word, as it mu?t do to be various.

   • 1940, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, India), Journal of the Asiatic Society, page 95:

     The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.

   • 1998, Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic Language in Government and Business, Georgetown University Press, Research on Telephone vs. In-Person Administrative Hearings, page 76:

     In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.

2. (mathematics) property of a function to be either always decreasing or always increasing
   • The function f(x): = x³ is monotone while g(x): = x² is not.

Definizione dizionario monotone

monotonale

monotonia

monotono

tono monotono

tono uniforme

Altri significati:

(ambitransitive) To speak in a monotone.

(of mathematics) property of a function to be either decreasing or increasing

(of speech or a sound) having a single unvaried pitch

A single unvaried tone of speech or a sound