sine

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When I began life, et militavi non sine -- never mind what -- I dreamed of success and honour; now I think of duty, and yonder folks, from whom we parted a few hours ago.

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  1. noun The ordinate of the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative.
  2. noun In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

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  • But it has exactly one graphic, and that's part of a discussion of how you can use arbitrary functions, like "sine", on the alpha channel. —  doggdot.us
  • I mean, if you put a variation (like a sine curve) on top of an increasing trend —  RealClimate
  • We will end up with street violence against politicians by mobs of various persuasions as the sine wave of outrageousness spreads from one side to the other and back again with everyone thinking they are right. —  Infidel Bloggers Alliance
  • In addition, our tests are run with sine-on-sine with a side-load at higher temperatures, which is more severe, yet we exceed the HMMWV passive damper test specification by a factor of four or more. —  Automotive Headlines
  • This week's EMS Labs project, a nesting, sine-wavey bracelet for ready for laser cutting: —  Daily DIY
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  1. Medieval Latin sinus (mistranslation of Arabic jayb, sine, as if jayb, fold in a garment), from Latin, curve, fold.

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  1. Also syne, the usual spelling in Scots; from Middle English sine, syne, a later form, with added adverbial termination -e (in part a mere variant), of sin, contraction of sithen: see sin, sith.
  2. from Latin sinus, a bend, curve, fold, coil, curl, especially the hanging fold of the upper part of a toga, a bay, bight, gulf, New Latin in mathematics a sine: see sinus.
  3. Cf. sie, sile.
  4. Latin, without: see sans, sinecure.
 

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