单词 | curve of sines |
释义 | > as lemmascurve of sines curve of sines n. Geometry (now rare) a curve whose ordinates are the sines of their corresponding abscissae; the graph of the function sin x; a sinusoid. ΚΠ 1821 J. Leslie Geom. Anal. iii. xii. 406 Perpendiculars, erected equal to the corresponding sines, will exhibit a line called the Curve of Sines. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 12 135 I would not call a Gothic arch circular though it be composed of arcs of circles; nor would I call the curve of cosines the curve of sines, though it be merely the same curve in a different phase. 1950 Math. Gaz. 34 261 Some better-known curves, notably the curve of sines and the logarithmic curve, will provide examples even more instructive than the ‘Folium’. < as lemmas |
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