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The circuit depicted in your drawing is a simple negative half wave rectifier.
The circuit will pass the negative half of the input signal. In other words:
when Vin>0, diode is reverse biased, Vout=0.
when Vin<0, diode is forwad biased, Vout=Vin assuming ideal diode.
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