sine curve
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sine curve
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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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.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2021
It was a picture of crossing perpendicular lines with a waveform running along the horizontal axis, a graph showing a sine curve.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
A shifted sine curve arises naturally when graphing the number of hours of daylight in a given location as a function of the day of the year.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
It’s surprisingly hard to define what it means for a space to be connected, but I attempted to when I wrote about the topologist’s sine curve.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2015
By the winter of that year, the sine curve of Rajesh’s psyche had tightened in its frequency and gained in its amplitude.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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