sech


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sech

abbr.
hyperbolic secant
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sech

(ʃɛk; sɛtʃ; ˈsɛkˈeɪtʃ)
n
(Mathematics) maths a hyperbolic secant; a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh
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sech


Math. Symbol.
hyperbolic secant.
(sec (ant) + h (yperbolic)]
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Well, then, what kind o' brothers would it be that 'd stand in his way at sech a time?
'ginst sech things these times, and the Lord 'll take keer of us all.
"They'll charge through hell's fire an' brimstone t' git a holt on a haversack, an' sech stomachs ain't a-lastin' long," he was told.
March bein' told, and worried just for sech a trifle.'
"The falls has been there sence the beginnin' o' time, an' I cal'late they'll be there till the end on 't; so you needn't 'a' been in sech a brash to git a sight of 'em.
I know'd in my mind, as he'd have told her wonders of 'em, and how she was to be a lady theer, and how he got her to listen to him fust, along o' sech like.
'Aye, and bloomin' glad they'll be to see us there.' Did I not say to you that the lady had a noble 'art, and would show it when put to the test by sech a calamity as this?"
Which I meantersay as sech if you're a man, come on!
First, [a.sub.0] = sech(0) = 1 and [a.sub.1] = sech'(0) = 0 are substituted in the right-hand-side of the last equation.
The sech shape typical for solitons is mathematically less convenient than a Gaussian: an initially Gaussian pulse, upon dispersion, remains Gaussian everywhere, except for rescaling, but underneath the Gaussian envelope a linear chirp (quadratic phase profile) develops.
[[rho].sub.0] (t) = [+ or -] [cube root of 2w/[sigma]] sech ([square root of 19/8]wt).