Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the sinusoid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a sinusoid; like a sinusoid.

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  • adjective In the form of a wave, especially one whose amplitude varies in proportion to the sine of some variable (such as time).

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  • adjective having a succession of waves or curves

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Examples

  • This reminds us of the fact that in acoustics, a series of discrete frequency values is coordinated to a linear partial differential equation (if boundary values are given) namely the sinusoidal periodic solutions.

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

  • Unlike laboratory stimuli such as sinusoidal grating or the Gabor patch, natural images generally contain signals broadly distributed over different spatial frequencies.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satohiro Tajima et al. 2010

  • For every line in order, perform a nonlinear regression to fit the line to an equation y = b0 + b1x + b2 (1. 1-x) b3 [+b4 sin (2πx + b5)] where the sinusoidal portion is optional for each page.

    Dewarping pages « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • A surface function that is sinusoidal at the bottom and grades smoothly to a straight course of bricks at the top gives a pleasing curtain effect.

    Wolfram Blog : Designing the Brick Wall of the Future 2009

  • Then we examine the system response to sinusoidal input signals with varying frequencies to determine if the cell can distinguish between different regimes of information flow from the environment.

    Alice In Wonderland official trailer 2009

  • Born in Tel Aviv and trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art, followed by the Architectural Association School in London, Ron Arad settled in London in 1973, where he has since produced a very varied range of creative objects based on sinusoidal, elliptical and oval forms, as unique pieces, limited series and mass-produced objects.

    Ron Arad at the Centre Pompidou in Paris 2008

  • You bust out 'cuboid,' setting all my nerve endings a-tingle, but then use the limp 'perfectly sine regularity' in lieu of say the throbbing 'perfect sinusoidal regularity' or the magnificently necropriapic 'cold dead sinusoidal character'?

    Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 6: Lord of Chaos (1994) Adam Roberts 2010

  • In other news, I was shown what has got to be the nerdiest landscaping in history: A wave field, the ground is a 3D sinusoidal wave.

    Archive 2008-10-01 HayleyM 2008

  • In other news, I was shown what has got to be the nerdiest landscaping in history: A wave field, the ground is a 3D sinusoidal wave.

    Down and Out HayleyM 2008

  • The ghost got up gracefully and at once started doing standing pirouettes, the linen whipping up in errant waves sinusoidal, sending ripples of air circlets, crowning the room.

    Hey, So This Is What LSD Feels Like 2009

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