Usually means: Mathematical function, S-shaped curve.
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  1. sigmoid: Merriam-Webster
  2. sigmoid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sigmoid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sigmoid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sigmoid: Vocabulary.com
  6. sigmoid: Wordnik
  7. Sigmoid, Sigmoid: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. sigmoid: Wiktionary
  9. sigmoid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sigmoid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sigmoid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sigmoid: Dictionary.com
  13. Sigmoid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sigmoid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sigmoid: Rhymezone
  16. Sigmoid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sigmoid: FreeDictionary.org
  18. sigmoid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. sigmoid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sigmoid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sigmoid: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sigmoid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. sigmoid: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sigmoid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. sigmoid, sigmoid-: Medical dictionary
  7. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Sigmoid: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See sigmoidally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sigmoid)

adjective:  (archaic) Semi-circular, like the uncial or lunate sigma (similar to English C).
adjective:  Curved in two directions, like the letter "S", or the Greek ς (sigma); having a serpentine shape.
adjective:  (mathematics) Exhibiting logistic growth; having a graph that accelerates until it reaches a carrying capacity.
adjective:  (anatomy) Relating to the sigmoid colon.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of sigmoid colon. [(anatomy) The S-shaped section of the large intestine between the descending colon and the rectum.]
noun:  (mathematics) Ellipsis of sigmoid function. [(mathematical analysis, statistics) Any of various real functions whose graph resembles an elongated letter "S"; specifically, the logistic function y=(eˣ)/(eˣ+1)=1/(1+e⁻ˣ).]

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