Definition of Sine curve

1. Noun. The curve of y=sin x.

Exact synonyms: Sinusoid
Generic synonyms: Undulation, Wave
Derivative terms: Sinusoidal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sine Curve

sinciputs
sincke
sincosite
sind
sinded
sinding
sinding-larson-johansson disease
sindings
sindon
sindonological
sindonology
sindons
sinds
sine
sine condition
sine curve (current term)
sine die
sine formula
sine law
sine qua non
sine qua nons
sine quibus non
sine ratio
sine rule
sine wave
sine waves
sinecural
sinecure
sinecures
sinecurism

Literary usage of Sine curve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Electrical Engineer (1888)
"Perry said he should like to say a word or two upon this matter of the sine curve. It had been said by Mr. Esson and by Mr. ..."

2. Analytic Geometry by Wallace Alvin Wilson, Joshua Irving Tracey (1915)
"115. The sine curve. — This is plotted from the equation y = sin x, where x is to be reckoned in circular, or radian measure. ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... the sine curve, or sinusoid. The undulations to -i fora -^-, then increasing too fora = 2*. extend rightward and leftward (for negative Meanwhile cos a ..."

4. Hawkins Electrical Guide: Questions, Answers & Illustrations; a Progressive by Nehemiah Hawkins (1917)
"179, the loop ABCD is ia the vertical position at the beginning of the revolution At this instant the electromotive force is zero, hence the sine curve as ..."

5. Alternating Currents: An Analytical and Graphical Treatment for Students and by Frederick Bedell, Albert Cushing Crehore (1901)
"Average value of ordinates of sine-curve. Value of mean square of ordinates of sine-curve. Periodic functions composed of several simple sine-functions of ..."

6. Alternating Currents: An Analytical and Graphical Treatment for Students and by Frederick Bedell, Albert Cushing Crehore (1893)
"Average value of ordinales of sine-curve. Value of mean square of ordinales of sine-curve. Periodic functions composed of several simple sine-functions of ..."

7. The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice by John Ambrose Fleming (1896)
"Since >/2 = 1-414 nearly, we see that 2 ^ _ the maximum ordinate of a simple sine curve is ... sine curve ..."

8. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1896)
"Of these one is a sine-curve, the other three form actual alternators, showing how nearly they agree with a true sine-curve. The one which agrees most ..."

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