monotonic
adjective
mono·ton·ic
ˌmä-nə-ˈtä-nik 
1
: characterized by the use of or uttered in a monotone
She recited the poem in a monotonic voice.
2
: having the property either of never increasing or of never decreasing as the values of the independent variable or the subscripts of the terms increase
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In this way history is not monotonic.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2011
Contra earlier models there isn't a monotonic decrease in the rate of adaptation as a function of complexity, but rather an increase until to an equipoise, before a subsequent decrease.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
Two survey studies found that people believe there is a linear and nearly monotonic relationship between talent and performance: Participants expected that more talent improves performance and that this relationship never turns negative.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2014
This curve shows a qualitatively non-monotonic pattern, which motivated us to perform a quadratic regression fitted within the bootstrapping framework.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
Delivered in a monotonic, almost spooky deadpan, the track has the feeling of poetry or performance art.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
What is being mourned isn't exactly the paper, but the possibility of its existence in this city that prided itself for its witty discretions - now replaced by a monotonic, absolute drone.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 June 2021
Gupta embeds those monotonic relationships in sprawling databases called interpolated lookup tables.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2011
Contra earlier models there isn't a monotonic decrease in the rate of adaptation as a function of complexity, but rather an increase until to an equipoise, before a subsequent decrease.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
Two survey studies found that people believe there is a linear and nearly monotonic relationship between talent and performance: Participants expected that more talent improves performance and that this relationship never turns negative.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2014
This curve shows a qualitatively non-monotonic pattern, which motivated us to perform a quadratic regression fitted within the bootstrapping framework.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
Delivered in a monotonic, almost spooky deadpan, the track has the feeling of poetry or performance art.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
What is being mourned isn't exactly the paper, but the possibility of its existence in this city that prided itself for its witty discretions - now replaced by a monotonic, absolute drone.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 June 2021
Gupta embeds those monotonic relationships in sprawling databases called interpolated lookup tables.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
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