COSINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

Synonyms:

cos; cosine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("cosine" is a kind of...):

circular function; trigonometric function (function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle)

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