sinusoid

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The last entry in the table is a sampled sinusoid with a period of just two samples, i.e.

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Quick take

(mathematics) A curve having the shape of a sine wave.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sinusoid gathered in one view.

noun

(mathematics) A curve having the shape of a sine wave.

noun

(anatomy) Any of several channels through which venous blood passes in various organs.

adjective

(mathematics) Sinusoidal.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sinusoid.

noun

(mathematics) A curve having the shape of a sine wave.

noun

(anatomy) Any of several channels through which venous blood passes in various organs.

adjective

(mathematics) Sinusoidal.

adjective

(anatomy) Characteristic of a sinus.

Example sentences

The last entry in the table is a sampled sinusoid with a period of just two samples, i.e.

The 1st entry in the table is a sampled sinusoid with a period exactly equal to T.

The sinusoid is a good illustration of what a given receiver might detect at some location (X,Y,Z).

Imagine a recording of a bass sinusoid and a mid-range sinusoid of equal volume.

The reason smoothstep looks similar to a sinusoid is because it is a polynomial approximation.

The pressure/volume curve can also be optimized and shaped instead of the sinusoid forced by the rotating movement.

For Perlin Noise, a sinusoid was the highest-quality interpolation because it was continuous everywhere, even at the endpoints.

The higher 10 bits are far from unused by the sinusoid in a 16 bit system, as they allow the amplitude of the sinusoid relative to the other sinusoid to remain unchanged.

Specifically, in the author's first example (the exponentially decaying sinusoid), viewing that graph in MS Excel will always appear jagged and pixellated.

A function such as a damped sinusoid makes a nice image this way.

I wouldn't call smoothstep an approximation to a sinusoid - both are sigmoidal, but that's about it.

The sinusoid must be quite pure, with strict maximums allowed of harmonics.

Quote examples

The little stairstep digitally-sampled sinusoid picture might look a little more rough for the "6-bit" sinusoid than the "10-bit" sinusoid but that's A)kind a pathological case and B)not at all representative of what gets sent to the amplifier after the DAC.

But beards were most alluring when facial hair was rare, whereas clean-shaven faces gained in popularity when hairy faces were the norm."[2] If this is true, then beards, when unhindered by religious beliefs, will follow a sort of sinusoid function.

Further down there is a sentence: "First, the Fuzz Face is a two-transistor feedback amplifier that turns a gentle sinusoid signal into an almost binary “fuzzy” output." But the figure does not match this - there is no "gentle sinusoid" wave shown on the first fuzz face plot.