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What does sine wave mean?
WordNet
Noun
sine wave -
a wave whose waveform resembles a sine curve
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Wiktionary
sine wave (Noun) A waveform described by the sine function, possibly shifted by some phase.
Wikipedia
This is a picture of a sine wave.
All waves are made by adding up sine waves. The sine wave has a pattern that repeats. The length of this repeating piece of the sine wave is called the wavelength. The wavelength can be found by measuring the length or distance between one peak of a sine wave and the next peak. The wavelength can be found in many other ways too.
Waves made of Sine Waves.
All of these waves are sums of sine waves.
Properties of Sine Waves.
Sine waves have a "length" called a wavelength. There are other properties of waves and sine waves, such as their frequency, amplitude, phase, and speed.
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