sigmoidal

English

Etymology

sigmoid +‎ -al

Adjective

sigmoidal (comparative more sigmoidal, superlative most sigmoidal)

  1. Sigmoid; S-shaped.
  2. (statistics) Characterized by a sigmoid curve or function
    • 2009 January 7, Jeffrey R. Moffitt et al., “Intersubunit coordination in a homomeric ring ATPase”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, DOI:10.1038/nature07637:
      The requirement […] typically results in a sigmoidal dependence on [ATP] 38 —the hallmark of binding cooperativity.

Noun

sigmoidal (plural sigmoidals)

  1. A sigmoidal function or curve

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