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The "-tonic" root of "harmonotonic" does share etymology with the musical terms "tone" and "tonic". They both come from the Greek word "tonikos" which means "a stretching". This is also the explanation for "tonic" water, which supposedly relaxes you by stretching your muscles. So, the term "harmonotonic tuning" reunites these divergent applications of stretching — function values, and instrument strings — back into one place. | The "-tonic" root of "harmonotonic" does share etymology with the musical terms "tone" and "tonic". They both come from the Greek word "tonikos" which means "a stretching". This is also the explanation for "tonic" water, which supposedly relaxes you by stretching your muscles. So, the term "harmonotonic tuning" reunites these divergent applications of stretching — function values, and instrument strings — back into one place. | ||
There is no relation between the "mono" Greek root meaning "one" and the "mon" in "harmony". It is just a fun coincidence that we can combine the two words this way. | |||
== Notes on monotonicity == | == Notes on monotonicity == | ||