Meanings
nounsine-Gordon equation (plural sine-Gordon equations)
plural sine-Gordon equations
- mathematicsA kind of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function.
Origin
Pun on the well-known Klein–Gordon equation.
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