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Sawtooth wave

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triangle wavenoun(mathematics, engineering) A function or waveform that alternately ramps linearly upwards and then downwards.
square wavenoun(calculus, engineering, signal processing) A function or waveform that alternates regularly and instantaneously between two levels.
sawtoothnounA tooth of a saw: any of its series of projections, each with a cutting edge.
squarewavenounAlternative form of square wave. [(calculus, engineering, signal processing) A function or waveform that alternates regularly and instantaneously between two levels.]
waveformnoun(physics, engineering) The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.
sinusoidnoun(mathematics) A curve having the shape of a sine wave.
sequencynounA pattern or order of sequential items in a series.
haar waveletnounA sequence of rescaled "square-shaped" functions which together form a wavelet family or basis.
sigmoidalsigmoid; S-shaped.
arithmetic spiralnoun(mathematics) Synonym of Archimedean spiral.
scalogramnoun(signal processing) A visual representation of a wavelet transform, having axes for time, scale, and coefficient value, analogous to a spectrogram
iteratenoun(mathematics) An n-fold self-composition of a function.
amplitudenounThe measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.
timesteppingnoun(mathematics) A stepwise temporal analysis.
heightnounThe distance from the base to the top of something.
devil's staircasenoun(mathematics, informal) Synonym of Cantor function; a type of monotonic increasing function.
repeating decimalnoun(mathematics) A decimal representation of a real number that, at some point, becomes periodic (and repeats some sequence of digits infinitely)
sigmoidnoun(mathematics) Ellipsis of sigmoid function. [(mathematical analysis, statistics) Any of various real functions whose graph resembles an elongated letter "S"; specifically, the logistic function y=(eˣ)/(eˣ+1)=1/(1+e⁻ˣ).]
step functionnoun(mathematics) A function from the real line to a finite subset of the real line.
periodicitynounThe quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.

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