noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sine qua non
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The control of inflation is a sine qua non for economic stability.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the network training process dynamics continue, you should see the output take the shape of a perfect sine wave.
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Immediately after inputting a sine wave to your network, you should observe the embryo of a sine wave.
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Prevention of depression and inflation remains a sine qua non for economic security.
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Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.
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The sine function, hyperbolic tangent, and other non-linear variations on these basic ideas have also been used.
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Thinking these thoughts gets in the way of my learning about sines and cosines.
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This function returns the sine of an angle.