Illustration of sine curve
- graph of y=a sin bx where a=1 and b=1
sine curve
noun
: the graph in rectangular coordinates of the equation y=a sin bx where a and b are constants
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Tours take place at the end of an album cycle, at which point the normal sine curve of hype and backlash is about to make another swing.
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Vulture, 3 June 2023
All of the lines have exactly the same shape - a sine curve.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
The Hemingway story is a sine curve, like most of our lives.
—Paul Hendrickson, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2012
Plotted over a year (in this case, from March to March), the length of daylight looks like one of our old friends from trigonometry class - the sine curve.
—OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2017
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Vulture, 3 June 2023
All of the lines have exactly the same shape - a sine curve.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
The Hemingway story is a sine curve, like most of our lives.
—Paul Hendrickson, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2012
Plotted over a year (in this case, from March to March), the length of daylight looks like one of our old friends from trigonometry class - the sine curve.
—OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Sep. 2017
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“Sine curve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sine%20curve. Accessed 27 Jul. 2025.
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