sigmoid
- adjective
- /ˈsɪɡmɔɪd/
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sigmoide
- The path of the roller coaster is sigmoid, rising and falling smoothly like the letter S.
Examples
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The graph of the population growth exhibited a sigmoid shape, indicating rapid growth that eventually levels off.
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The question I'm going to spin entertaining lies around is this: what is network security going to be about once we get past the current sigmoid curve of accelerating progress and into a steady state, when Moore's first law is long since burned out, and networked computing appliances have been around for as long as steam engines?
Blog text (16) -
The final learning rate was 0.05, a momentum factor of 0.8, logistic function (sigmoid transfer function) of neuron activation, and 100,000 training cycles were used.
Academic text (2013) -
Her artistic design featured a sigmoid curve, which added a dynamic flair to the overall composition.
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Compounds
- Specialized
A large S-shaped vein in the covering of the brain that takes blood to a vein in the neck
- Specialized
An S-shaped bend near the end of the large intestine that leads to the rectum
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Etymology
Sigmoid comes from the Greek letter sigma, which looks like an 'S', plus the ending -oid meaning 'like' or 'shape'. So sigmoid means 'S-shaped', a curve that bends one way and then the other.