WordNet
sine curve
n. the curve of y=sin x [syn: sinusoid]
Usage examples of "sine curve".
Sliding back down the sine curve of her moods, into something darker and deeper.
Then the slope they ascended grew less steep, in a perfect sine curve, until they were on the flat land of the round summit plateau.
A slow sine curve leaped onto the scanner's readout plate, wiggled briefly for a moment, and then straightened to an absolutely motionless line.
It traced a sine curve fifty feet in amplitude until it struck the crater wall just above the door to Hangar SW1.
O'Brian had kept it darting through and about the marchers in a double-sine curve in three dimensions, at its top speed and with progressive modulations of the orbit.