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Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third Collegiate Edition, gives five meanings to “monotone”, all musical, none mathematical. In math, a function is monotone on an interval if it is either increasing or decreasing on the interval.
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Flanders, H. (1996). Applications of Derivatives. In: Calculus. Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2480-6_4
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