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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Real oceanic waves aren’t perfectly smooth sine curves; their peaks tend to grow steeper and sharper while their valleys become broader and flatter.
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2025
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.
—Vulture, 3 June 2023
All of the lines have exactly the same shape - a sine curve.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
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
The Hemingway story is a sine curve, like most of our lives.
—Paul Hendrickson, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2012
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2025
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.
—Vulture, 3 June 2023
All of the lines have exactly the same shape - a sine curve.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2017
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
The Hemingway story is a sine curve, like most of our lives.
—Paul Hendrickson, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2012
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“Sine curve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sine%20curve. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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