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sine curve

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. a curve described by the equation y = sin x, the ordinate being equal to the sine of the abscissa.


sine curve

noun

  1. a curve of the equation y = sin x Also calledsinusoid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sine curve1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

He talks a lot about what you just mentioned, which is the sort of sine curve of public interest in surveillance.

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I think there are a lot of parallels between narratives and calculus, how you can analyze a sine curve and plug it into the hero's journey.

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By the winter of that year, the sine curve of Rajesh’s psyche had tightened in its frequency and gained in its amplitude.

It was a picture of crossing perpendicular lines with a waveform running along the horizontal axis, a graph showing a sine curve.

Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in the distance, the glittery amethyst sea.

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