単調

たんちょう
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Monotonous; lacking variation or interest; dullness or monotony (used as a na-adjective).

Na-AdjectiveNoun

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毎日同じ仕事の繰り返しで単調に感じる。

Doing the same work every day feels monotonous.

彼の話し方は抑揚がなく単調なので、聞き取りにくいことがある。

His manner of speaking is monotone, so sometimes it's hard to follow.

単調さを避けるために曲のテンポを変えた。

We changed the tempo of the song to avoid monotony.

職場に変化をつけることで単調な雰囲気を改善した。

By introducing changes in the workplace, we improved the monotonous atmosphere.

2

In mathematics, monotone/monotonic — a property of a function or sequence that is consistently nondecreasing or nonincreasing.

NounNa-AdjectiveMathematics

Examples

この関数は全域で単調増加であると証明された。

It was proven that this function is monotone increasing over the whole domain.

数列が単調であれば収束性の議論が簡単になる場合が多い。

If a sequence is monotone, it often makes arguments about convergence easier.

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