Sine
noun
In mathematics, it is a function of an angle in a right triangle which equals the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse.
To calculate the height of the mountain, I used the sine of the angle of elevation and the distance from the mountain.
Often appears as...
- sine function
- sine wave
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Technical
noun
In computing, it is a function in programming languages that returns the sine of a number.
In my computer program, I used the sine function to calculate the angle.
Often appears as...
- sine function
- sine calculation
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Technical
noun
In mathematics, it is a function of an angle in a right triangle which equals the length of the side opposite the angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse.
To calculate the height of the mountain, I used the sine of the angle of elevation and the distance from the mountain.
Often appears as...
- sine function
- sine wave
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In computing, it is a function in programming languages that returns the sine of a number.
In my computer program, I used the sine function to calculate the angle.
Often appears as...
- sine function
- sine calculation
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Trigonometry Base
Understand that 'sine' is fundamental in trigonometry, a branch of mathematics dealing with angles and sides of triangles.
The sine of 90 degrees is always 1.
Pro Tip 2/3Ratio Concept
'Sine' in mathematics expresses a ratio, not just any number, which helps to understand various geometrical relationships.
We need the sine of this angle to find the ratio of side lengths.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Triangles
Besides right triangles, 'sine' extends to functions graphed as waves, used in physics, engineering, and signal processing.
The graph of the sine function resembles ocean waves.
Pro Tip 1/3Trigonometry Base
Understand that 'sine' is fundamental in trigonometry, a branch of mathematics dealing with angles and sides of triangles.
The sine of 90 degrees is always 1.
Pro Tip 2/3Ratio Concept
'Sine' in mathematics expresses a ratio, not just any number, which helps to understand various geometrical relationships.
We need the sine of this angle to find the ratio of side lengths.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Triangles
Besides right triangles, 'sine' extends to functions graphed as waves, used in physics, engineering, and signal processing.
The graph of the sine function resembles ocean waves.
Pro Tip 1/3Trigonometry Base
Understand that 'sine' is fundamental in trigonometry, a branch of mathematics dealing with angles and sides of triangles.
The sine of 90 degrees is always 1.
Pro Tip 2/3Ratio Concept
'Sine' in mathematics expresses a ratio, not just any number, which helps to understand various geometrical relationships.
We need the sine of this angle to find the ratio of side lengths.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Triangles
Besides right triangles, 'sine' extends to functions graphed as waves, used in physics, engineering, and signal processing.
The graph of the sine function resembles ocean waves.
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Bill Gross: Great ideas...
So, about two and a half hours of the day we could collect with a stationary component. Solar cells collect light for four and a half hours though. On an average adjusted day, a solar cell -- because the sun's moving across the sky, the solar cell is going down with a sine wave function of performance at the off-axis angles.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
and trust is a sine qua non of this new network world. So this is good. It's not bad. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And we need a lot of sunlight in this troubled world. Now, the third meaning and corresponding principle of openness is about sharing. Now this is different than transparency.
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Ge Wang: The DIY...
so I would say, don't freak out. In fact, I would invite all of you to join me in just geeking out. If you've never written a line of code before in your life, do not worry. I'll bet you'll be able to come along on this. First thing I'm going to do is to make a sine wave oscillator,
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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
"for any idea drawings." With respect to idea drawings, nowhere in the contract is the word "cartoon" mentioned. The word "idea drawings," and that's the sine qua non of New Yorker cartoons. So what is an idea drawing? An idea drawing is something that requires you to think.
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Making Dinosaurs Come...
is hung while being treatise ient we'll also involve a degree of artistic interpretation to really bring the exhibit to life a little bit more of a sine wave in it necklace it's a little too flat it's not moving well myself and
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Things you learned in...
actually we can calculate this right because we can take the opposite over the adjacent which is tangent right everybody's tellin sine cosine tangent this is our geometry and we can calculate our acts our X actually ends
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
which means during the making of that sine wave, the speed at which it is propagating is shifting. All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound.
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The call to learn PIPE...
Anyone who's a musician has been profoundly influenced by Robert Moog. And I'll just say what I'm about to do. What I'm about to do -- I hope you can recognize that there's a distorted sine wave,
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Jared Ficklin: New ways...
So every time we hit a resonant frequency we get a standing wave and that emergent sine curve of fire. So let's turn that off. We're indoors.
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Reuben Margolin:...
Do you see how there's three peaks to the yellow sine wave? Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.
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Bill Gross: Great ideas...
So, about two and a half hours of the day we could collect with a stationary component. Solar cells collect light for four and a half hours though. On an average adjusted day, a solar cell -- because the sun's moving across the sky, the solar cell is going down with a sine wave function of performance at the off-axis angles.
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Don Tapscott: Four...
and trust is a sine qua non of this new network world. So this is good. It's not bad. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And we need a lot of sunlight in this troubled world. Now, the third meaning and corresponding principle of openness is about sharing. Now this is different than transparency.
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Ge Wang: The DIY...
so I would say, don't freak out. In fact, I would invite all of you to join me in just geeking out. If you've never written a line of code before in your life, do not worry. I'll bet you'll be able to come along on this. First thing I'm going to do is to make a sine wave oscillator,
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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
"for any idea drawings." With respect to idea drawings, nowhere in the contract is the word "cartoon" mentioned. The word "idea drawings," and that's the sine qua non of New Yorker cartoons. So what is an idea drawing? An idea drawing is something that requires you to think.
Video examples
Making Dinosaurs Come...
is hung while being treatise ient we'll also involve a degree of artistic interpretation to really bring the exhibit to life a little bit more of a sine wave in it necklace it's a little too flat it's not moving well myself and
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Things you learned in...
actually we can calculate this right because we can take the opposite over the adjacent which is tangent right everybody's tellin sine cosine tangent this is our geometry and we can calculate our acts our X actually ends
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
which means during the making of that sine wave, the speed at which it is propagating is shifting. All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound.
Video examples
The call to learn PIPE...
Anyone who's a musician has been profoundly influenced by Robert Moog. And I'll just say what I'm about to do. What I'm about to do -- I hope you can recognize that there's a distorted sine wave,
Video examples
Jared Ficklin: New ways...
So every time we hit a resonant frequency we get a standing wave and that emergent sine curve of fire. So let's turn that off. We're indoors.
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Reuben Margolin:...
Do you see how there's three peaks to the yellow sine wave? Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.
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Noah Feldman
American Author
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
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Louis MacNeice
British Poet
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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Warren Bennis
American Writer
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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Arthur Laffer
American Economist
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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Noah Feldman
American Author
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
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Louis MacNeice
British Poet
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
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Warren Bennis
American Writer
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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Arthur Laffer
American Economist
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
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Robert A. Heinlein
American Writer
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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