What does Sinusoidal mean?

[johnnybravo19]

I see it being used repetitively, but have no clue what it means

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[MedPR]

"S shaped"

 

[ebasappa]

http://www.duncansonelectric.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/00-sinusoidal-pattern-1024x266.gif


^^ that shape

 

[circulus vitios]

Shaped like a sine wave, or s-shaped.

 

[MedPR]

Actually, I guess "S shaped" is more appropriate for "sigmoid". Whereas sinusoidal is shaped like a sine wave (as the others above have said).

 

[milski]

Anything which is either a*sin(b*x) or a*cos(b*x). In physics, most of the time these will be things related to simple harmonic oscillators - pendulums, springs, etc.