Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

periodic function

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables: pe-ri-od-ic -func-tion
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any function whose value repeats after the regular addition of a period to its independent variable; i.e., a function ƒ such that, for some positive constant p, ƒ(x + p) = ƒ(x) for all x.

Inflected Forms

periodic functions (plural)

Questions

What does periodic function mean?: Any function whose value repeats after the regular addition of a period to its independent variable; i.e., a function ƒ such that, for some positive constant p, ƒ(x + p) = ƒ(x) for all x.

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