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単調増加 (tanchouzouka) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

単たん調ちょう増ぞう加か

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Meanings

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monotonic increase

Mathematical term for a function or sequence that never decreases as its argument or index increases.

この関かん数すうは区く間かん全ぜん体たいで単たん調ちょう増ぞう

加か

で

ある

。

This function is monotonically increasing over the entire interval.

Kanji

単simple, one, single
調tune, tone, meter
増increase, add, augment
加add, addition, increase

Related words

単たん調ちょう減げん少しょう
Antonym: monotonic decrease, where values never increase.
単たん調ちょう非ひ減げん少しょう
Synonym sometimes used to emphasize that the function does not decrease, but may stay constant.

Word family

単たん調ちょう増ぞう加か数すう列れつ
monotonically increasing sequence

Built from

単たん調ちょう+増ぞう加か

Etymology

Compound of 単調 (monotone) and 増加 (increase), directly calqued from the English mathematical term 'monotonic increase'.