sine wave
(sine wave)
Princeton's WordNet
a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve
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sine
Webster Dictionary
the perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below
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cosine
Webster Dictionary
the sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions
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coversed sine
Webster Dictionary
the versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions
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sin
(ɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
sine.
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sinical
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant
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cosine
(ˈkoʊ saɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc.
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cosecant
(ʊˈsi kənt, -kænt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the secant of the complement, or the reciprocal of the sine, of a given angle or arc.
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harmonic
(ɑrˈmɒn ɪk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
capable of being represented by sine and cosine functions.
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sagitta
Webster Dictionary
the distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string
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sinusoid
(ˈsaɪ nəˌsɔɪd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a curve described by the equation y=a sin x, the ordinate being proportional to the sine of the abscissa.
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sine wave
(ˈsɪn yu)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a periodic oscillation, as simple harmonic motion, having the same geometric representation as a sine.
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trigonometric function
(ˈtrɪg ə nl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a function of an angle, as the sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
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function
(ˈfʌŋk ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a formula expressing a relation between the angles of a triangle and its sides, as sine or cosine.
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sine curve
(ˈsaɪ nɪˌkyʊər, ˈsɪn ɪ-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a graphic representation of the ratio of the size of an angle to its sine; the graph of the equation y= sin
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fourier analysis
(ˈfʊər iˌeɪ, -i ər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the expression of any periodic function as a sum of sine and cosine functions, as in an electromagnetic wave function.
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cross product
(ˈkrɔsˌpis, ˈkrɒs-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a vector perpendicular to two given vectors and having magnitude equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two vectors multiplied by the sine of the angle between them.
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antilogarithm
Webster Dictionary
the number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine
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hyperbolic function
(ˌhaɪ pərˈbɒl ɪk)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine.
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inverse
Webster Dictionary
opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x
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