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Definitions: Sigmoid |
SigmoidAdjective1. Curved in two directions (like the letter S). 2. Of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | 1. shaped like the letter S or the letter C. 2. the sigmoid colon. (references) |
Medicine | S-shaped; shaped like the letter sigma. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The portion of the colon that extends from the descending colon to the rectum. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Science | Curved like the letter 'S'. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In a neural network, the sigmoid function is used to add nonlinearity. A bounded sigmoid function is the hyperbolic tangent function, or this translated to the range (0,1); an unbounded sigmoid function is the inverse hyperbolic cosine function.
See also: Sigmoid function
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sigmoid."
Synonym: SigmoidSynonym: sigmoidal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convolution | Adjective: convoluted; winding, twisted; Verb: tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sigmoid |
| English words defined with "sigmoid": descending colon ♦ flexible sigmoidoscope ♦ internal jugular vein ♦ rectosigmoid, rectum ♦ sigmoid colon, sigmoid flexure, sigmoid sinus, Sigmoid valves, sigmoid vein, sigmoidal, sigmoidectomy, sigmoidoscope, sinus transversus ♦ transverse sinus ♦ vena sigmoideus, volvulus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sigmoid": Logistic equation ♦ McCulloch-Pitts neuron, Mesenteric Artery, Inferior ♦ Proctosigmoiditis ♦ sigmoid curve, Sigmoid Neoplasms, Sigmoidoscopes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sigmoid" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (sigmoid). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An examination of the rectum and lower colon (sigmoid) is called a sigmoidoscopy. (references) | |
To rule out other causes of gastrointestinal bleeding, the doctor may examine the rectum and lower colon (sigmoid) with sigmoidoscopy or the entire colon with colonoscopy. (references) | ||
Sigmoidoscopy (SIG-moy-DAH-skuh-pee) enables the physician to look at the inside of the large intestine from the rectum through the last part of the colon, called the sigmoid colon. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sigmoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.41% of the time. "Sigmoid" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.41% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.59% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sigmoid": Sigmoid Colon ♦ sigmoid curve ♦ sigmoid flexure ♦ sigmoid function ♦ Sigmoid Neoplasms ♦ sigmoid sinus ♦ sigmoid valves ♦ sigmoid vein. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sigmoid": sigmoid-rectal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sigmoid colon | 38 |
sigmoid | 25 |
colectomy sigmoid | 10 |
curve sigmoid | 10 |
sigmoid volvulus | 9 |
diverticulosis sigmoid | 8 |
resection sigmoid | 6 |
cancer colon sigmoid | 6 |
sigmoid diverticulitis | 6 |
cancer sigmoid | 4 |
colon resection sigmoid | 4 |
function sigmoid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sigmoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sigmoideus/sigmoideum, sigmoideum- (sigmoidal), sigmoideal (sigmoidal), colon sigmoideum (pelvic colon, sigmoid colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sigmodeus (sigmoidal), sigmoïed (sigmoidal), sigmoïd (sigmoid colon), sigmoïd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sigmasuoli (sigmoid colon), vemmelsuoli (sigmoid colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sigmoïdien (sigmoidal), sigmoïde (sigmoid colon), sigmoïde, S iliaque (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), côlon terminal (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), côlon ilio-pelvien (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), anse sigmoïde (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), anse iliaque (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sigmoid (Colon sigmoideum, pelvic colon, sigmoid colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σιγμοειδές (pelvic colon, sigmoid colon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sigmoide (sigmoid colon, sigmoidal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シグモイド関数 (San Francisco, scissors cut, shish-kebabs, sigmoid function, signal ground, sissy, sister, sysop, system, System 5, system bus, system camera, system component, system converter, system house, system kitchen, system menu, system operator, system television, systematic, systems, systems administrator, systems analysis, systems analyst, systems approach, systems design, systems designer, systems engineer, systems engineering, systems flow chard, systems hacking, systems network, systems planner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シグモイドか"すう (sigmoid function). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | s자 형. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igmoidsay sigmoideu (sigmoidal), sigmóide. (various references) sigmoideo, sigma iliaca (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), sigma (Sigma), colon sigmoideo (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon), colon sigmoide (pelvic colon, sigmoid colon), asa sigmoide (Colon sigmoideum, sigmoid colon). (various references) S-kurva (sigmoid curve), sigmoidkurva (sigmoid curve), sigmoidfunktion (sigmoid function, squashing function), sigmoid (sigmoid curve), variabelt neuron (sigmoid neuron). (various references) ซึ่งเป็นรูปตัวเอส (s). (various references) сигмоїдальний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Colon sigmoideum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sigmoid": sigmoidal, sigmoidally, sigmoidoscopies, sigmoidoscopy, sigmoids. (additional references) | |
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"Sigmoid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sygmoid, Zigmond. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: idioms, iodism. | |
-2 letters: gismo, idiom, imido, imids, midis, misdo. | |
-3 letters: digs, dims, dogs, doms, gids, gods, imid, midi, mids, migs, miso, modi, mods, mogs, smog. | |
-4 letters: dig, dim, dis, dog, dom, dos, gid, god, gos, ids, ism, mid, mig, mis, mod, mog, mos, ods, oms, sim, sod, som. | |
-5 letters: do, go, id, is, mi, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: misdoing, sigmoids. | |
+2 letters: miscoding, misdoings, sigmoidal. | |
+3 letters: demonising, melodising, mislodging, miswording, sodomizing. | |
+4 letters: admonishing, demolishing, dichogamies, disbosoming, dismounting, gadoliniums, methodising, midmornings, misdiagnose, misdoubting, misordering, missounding, modernising, sigmoidally. | |
+5 letters: dimensioning, discomfiting, discommoding, discomposing, disembodying, disemboguing, gormandising, misdiagnosed, misdiagnoses, misdiagnosis, misrecording, mockingbirds, postmidnight. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 67 6D 6F 69 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. --. -- --- .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01100111 01101101 01101111 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i g m o i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0067 006D 006F 0069 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53757379817570 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, шведська мова, шведський |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailænder, Thais, Thai, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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