sine curve

American  

noun

Mathematics.

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

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sine curve British  

noun

1. Also called: sinusoid.  a curve of the equation y = sin x

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Etymology

Origin of sine curve

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

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

From Literature

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

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.

From Literature