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cycle shape

شکل ِ چرخه

šekl-e carxe

Fr.: forme de cycle

A graph displaying the average → sunspot number over each → sunspot cycle. It presents a shape of skewed → Gaussian: the rise to maximum is faster than the decline to minimum.

See also: → cycle; → shape.