of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value  
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
| monotone |   | 
| monotonic |   | 
lexical pointers
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semantic pointers
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