Adjective : a monotonic delivery of a lecture.    From Dictionary.com. 

The fundamental flaw is looking at temperature changes as "monotonic" that is, inexorably heading upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

“Circumscription: A form of non-monotonic reasoning”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

Frankly all one or the other would be a little monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [EGC Clambake for December 14, 2005] Reference

The consequence relations of classical logics are monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

“Conditional implications and non-monotonic consequence”, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic and Artificial Intelligence] Reference

(This leads to some kinds of default or non-monotonic inference.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Consequence] Reference

There is some evidence that the glacier shrinkage is not monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit] Reference

On the other hand, Obama's monotonic calm admittedly kind of scares me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvia Welsh: The Shrinkage Factor] Reference

Thus there is a monotonic relationship between species richness and area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecology] Reference

The three dam stations exhibit surprisingly constant monotonic? increases.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minnesota Dam Nation « Climate Audit] Reference

Still, the CO2 increase over last 100 years is near monotonic and temp is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graybill and Idso [1993] Online « Climate Audit] Reference

In light of the monotonic progression point, the former certainly makes sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [None is, none are: Grammar according to Clarkson « Motivated Grammar] Reference

What I do NOT want is a monotonic dissertation that completely dissects a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

MESA models evolutionary searches that employ monotonic smooth fitness gradients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Target? TARGET? We don't need no stinkin' Target! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Although the increase is not monotonic (Fig. 6.36), it is statistically significant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freshwater discharge in the Arctic] Reference

I also think that there are certain kinds of intelligence, its not a monotonic scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail] Reference

Since I played sax and clarinet for years, I keep slipping back to a monotonic approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [tap all night] Reference

The data appear to show a pretty monotonic upward trend modulated by yearly oscillations.    From Wordnik.com.  [“The Entire Planet!”] Reference

However, such patterns are beyond reach for FOL, which is, by its very nature, monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

"Her flat, monotonic voice lays out yards of opaque white gauze," observed Barbara Ehrenreich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's "Flawless Campaign"] Reference

No one should expect global climate change to be monotonic, with each year warmer than the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Record warmth in 2010, despite cooling influences] Reference

“Her flat, monotonic voice lays out yards of opaque white gauze,” observed Barbara Ehrenreich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's "Flawless Campaign"��] Reference

Using survey data, I find that only in Chavez's first election in 1998 was class voting monotonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class and Voting: Chavismo and Bushismo] Reference

The most fundamental property of molecular clocks is that they are monotonic; they never run backwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Clocks - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The major one is the assumption that adaptation means monotonic improvement against some external metric.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Tell Me That It’s Evolution] Reference

Now, our information measure should be a continuous and monotonic function of the probability of the symbols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Semantic Conceptions of Information] Reference

The idea of minimization is at the basis of one of the earliest non-monotonic formalisms, McCarthy's circumscription.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

I am not opposed to a voting method that is simple to count and fair and monotonic and solves the spoiler problem, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instant Runoff Voting touted as way to eliminate recounts] Reference

The previous discussion gives a rather clear picture of the desirable features of a non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

We assume that these defeasible conclusions are built into whatever inferential mechanism implements the non-monotonic relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

However, there are reasons to think that Rational Monotony might not be a correct feature of a non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference

But if there is a monotonic earnings function, then treating all dropouts as identical is a potential source of noise in Card's data.    From Wordnik.com.  [High School: Don't Bother to Graduate [UPDATE--my error], Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

But IRV is not simple to count, and it is "non monotonic", meaning that you can hurt your preferred candidate by voting for him or her!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Instant Runoff Voting touted as way to eliminate recounts] Reference

I clarify the concept of class voting by distinguishing between monotonic and non-monotonic associations between class and vote choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class and Voting: Chavismo and Bushismo] Reference

Every time she opens her mouth, her flat, monotonic voice lays out yards of opaque white gauze, muffling any possibility of "discourse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: The Clinton Campaign: Running on Ambien] Reference

Wakefield watched the pressure readings, which started at 1.05 bars, fall below Earth levels, and continue their steady, monotonic decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rama Revisited]

Gabbay (1985), that Reflexivity, Cut and Cautious Monotony are critical properties for any well-behaved non-monotonic consequence relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference