mono

UK /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ US /ˈmɑ.noʊ/
noun 9name 7adj 4

Definitions

noun

1

A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.

2

A diet where someone eats only one type of food.

plum mono

3

Clipping of monomorphism.

4

Clipping of mononucleosis.

5

Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.

adj

1

Clipping of monochrome.

The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode.

2

Clipping of monosexual.

People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway.

That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]

adj

1

Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel.

Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.

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