Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sine-gordon equation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: sine--gor-don e-qua-tion
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function.

Etymology

Pun on the well-known Klein–Gordon equation.

Inflected Forms

sine-Gordon equations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

kink

Questions

What does sine-gordon equation mean?: A kind of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function.
Where does sine-gordon equation come from?: Pun on the well-known Klein–Gordon equation.

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