noun
- the property of being monotonic; the quality of changing in only one direction without reversing
Usage: mathematics; technical
Examples
- The monotonicity of the function made it easy to predict its behavior.
- Economists studied the monotonicity of price increases over the decade.
- The data showed clear monotonicity in the upward trend.
- Monotonicity is an important property in optimization problems.
- The researcher verified the monotonicity of the experimental results.
- Breaking the monotonicity of the sequence indicated an error in calculations.