Sinusoid Definition

sīnə-soid, -nyə-
sinusoids
noun
sinusoids

Sine curve.

Webster's New World
Any of the venous cavities through which blood passes in various glands and organs, such as the adrenal gland and the liver.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective

(mathematics) Sinusoidal.

Wiktionary

(anatomy) Characteristic of a sinus.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Sinusoid

Noun

Singular:
sinusoid
Plural:
sinusoids

Origin of Sinusoid

  • Medieval Latin sinus sine sine –oid

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the French sinusoïde.

    From Wiktionary

Sinusoid Sentence Examples

  • If the pressure falls off uniformly, so that the pressure-curve is a straight line PDF sloping downwards and cutting AM in F, then the energy-curve will be a parabola curving downwards, and the velocity-curve can be represented by an ellipse, or circle with centre F and radius FA; while the time-curve will be a sinusoid.

  • The second component at frequency 200 remains a damped sinusoid.

  • In the case of the ramped sinusoid, shifting to the local max criterion has a dramatic effect.

  • Notice that it is a decaying sinusoid and that the envelope function is.

  • Human listeners judge ramped sinusoids to sound more like an unmodulated sinusoid than damped sinusoids.

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Words Starting With

SSISIN

Words Ending With

DIDOID

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