sinusoidal

See also: sinusoïdal

English

Etymology

From sinusoid +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪnəˈsɔɪdəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsɑɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪnəˈsoɪdəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪdəl

Adjective

sinusoidal (comparative more sinusoidal, superlative most sinusoidal)

1. (mathematics) Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave.
   • 2014, Robert Gilkey, Timothy R. Anderson, Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments:

     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.

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

Derived terms

• cosinusoidal
• intrasinusoidal
• nonsinusoidal
• perisinusoidal
• postsinusoidal
• presinusoidal
• sinusoidal function
• sinusoidalize
• sinusoidally

Translations

in the form of a sine wave

Finnish: sinimuotoinen French: sinusoïdal (fr) German: sinusförmig Greek: ημιτονοειδής (el) (imitonoeidís) Icelandic: sínus-, sínuslaga f Polish: sinusoidalny (pl) Portuguese: senoidal (pt), sinusoidal (pt) Russian: синусоида́льный (ru) (sinusoidálʹnyj) Spanish: senoidal (es), sinusoidal (es) Swedish: sinusformad (sv) Tagalog: sinwayin

Noun

sinusoidal (plural sinusoidals)

1. A sine wave (or combination of such waves)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /si.nu.zɔjˈdal/ [si.nu.zɔjˈðaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /si.nu.zɔjˈdal/ [si.nu.zɔjˈðaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /si.nu.zɔjˈda.li/ [si.nu.zɔjˈða.li]

• Hyphenation: si‧nu‧soi‧dal

Adjective

sinusoidal m or f (plural sinusoidais)

1. sinusoidal

   Synonym: senoidal

Further reading

• “sinusoidal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sinusoidal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sinusoïdal.

Adjective

sinusoidal m or n (feminine singular sinusoidală, masculine plural sinusoidali, feminine/neuter plural sinusoidale)

1. sinusoidal

Declension

Declension of sinusoidal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sinusoidal		sinusoidală		sinusoidali	sinusoidale
	definite	sinusoidalul		sinusoidala		sinusoidalii	sinusoidalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sinusoidal		sinusoidale		sinusoidali	sinusoidale
	definite	sinusoidalului		sinusoidalei		sinusoidalilor	sinusoidalelor

Spanish

Adjective

sinusoidal m or f (masculine and feminine plural sinusoidales)

1. sinusoidal

   Synonym: senoidal

Further reading

• “sinusoidal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024