Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sinusoidal

/ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English

Syllables: si-nu-soidal
IPA: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave.

adj

Relating to any of several channels (the sinusoids) through which venous blood passes in various organs.

noun

A sine wave (or combination of such waves)

Example Sentences

"An averager of the sort described earlier would operate such that, as the frequency of sinusoidal variation of ITD was increased, more and more samples of the dynamically varying ITD would fall within the averaging window and the effective ITD would tend toward their mean of zero."

Etymology

From sinusoid + -al.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/
British English: /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/

Inflected Forms

more sinusoidal (comparative) most sinusoidal (superlative) sinusoidals (plural)

Derived Forms

cosinusoidal intrasinusoidal nonsinusoidal parasinusoidal perisinusoidal postsinusoidal presinusoidal sinusoidalize sinusoidally

Phrases

sinusoidal function

Rhymes With

colloidal trapezoidal steroidal toroidal nonsteroidal ellipsoidal spheroidal choroidal discoidal sigmoidal rhomboidal cuboidal

Questions

How do you pronounce sinusoidal?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/.
What does sinusoidal mean?: Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave.
Where does sinusoidal come from?: From sinusoid + -al.

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