<p><strong>adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone: a monotonic delivery of a lecture.</li><li>Mathematics: (of a function or sequence) either consistently increasing in value and never decreasing, or consistently decreasing in value and never increasing: A monotonic sequence can either converge or diverge, but it can never oscillate.</li><li>(of an ordered system of sets) consisting of sets such that each set contains the preceding set or such that each set is contained in the preceding set.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>