monotoneとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the post-Classical Latin monotonus (“unvarying in tone”) or its etymon the Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “steady”, “unwavering”); compare cognate adjectives, namely the French monotone, the German monoton, the Italian monotono, and the Spanish monótono, as well as the slightly earlier English noun monotony and adjective monotonical.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒn.ə.təʊn/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː.nə.toʊn/

形容詞

monotone (comparative more monotone, superlative most monotone)

1. (of speech または a sound) Having a single unvaried pitch.
   • 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) Being, or having the salient properties of, a monotone function.

   The function ${\displaystyle f(x):=x^{3}}$ is monotone on ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} }$, while ${\displaystyle g(x):=x^{2}}$ is not.

派生語

• pseudomonotone

名詞

monotone (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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.

   • 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 firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.

   • 1846 October, Alfred B[illings] Street, “A Day’s Hunting about the Mongaup”, in George R[ex] Graham, editor, Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume XXIX, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham & Co., […], OCLC 1017756595, page 190:

     There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."

2. A piece of writing in one strain throughout.