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sine | American Dictionary

sine
noun[ C ]
us/sɑɪn/(abbreviationsin)
trigonometry
in a triangle that has one angle of 90°, the ratio (= relationship) of the length of the side opposite an angle less than 90° divided by the length of the hypotenuse (= the side opposite the 90° angle)

Examples of sine

sine
For a subset of neurons in our sample, we measured visual responses to a drifting sine-wave grating.
Therefore, in the second experiment, we measured temporal tuning functions of cor tical neurons using drifting plaid patterns (or thogonal contrast modulated sine-wave gratings).
The miner progressive cross track deviation can be calculated as the integral of the sine of heading deviation with respect to along track distance.
It is, in a way, the sine qua non of municipal connections, since it gives them grandeur and legitimacy.
The purest form of sound for the ear is a sine wave, which mathematically is a continuously varying trigonometrical function.
Subjects favored a sine wave path over the parabolic trajectory, and generally all paths of some continuous curvature were judged to be fairly natural.
Additional columns are added for a constant term, and for sine and cosine sequences at the mains electrical frequency, to fit contamination from this source.
The initial excitation is composed of two sources - a pulse oscillator and a frequency-modulated sine oscillator.
A dynamic field of sine tones and rhythmic glitches was composed to augment the more subtle sounds of the installation.
The sine waves are not as blended together as was hoped, but every so often interesting timbres magically solidify and then dissipate.
The consequent, accidental rediscovery of the sine wave is an event with ramifications outside the music room.
Judicial independence is thus a sine qua non for the judicialisation of policy.
At the most extreme end of this continuum is a sine tone (with no spectra), while at the other end is noise.
Unless the speakers are set far enough apart, the sines do not spatialise well.
To the ear this is much more noisy than the smooth sine wave.
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