Complete Definition of "cosine"

English

Noun
cosine (plural cosines)

  1. trigonometry In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos

Related terms
arccosine
sine

Translations
trans-top|trigonometric function
Catalan: cosinus#Catalan|cosinus m
Czech: kosinus m
Chinese: �弦
Dutch: cosinus#Dutch|cosinus m
Finnish: kosini
French: cosinus#French|cosinus m
German: Kosinus m
Italian: coseno#Italian|coseno m
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Japanese: ���� (kosain), �弦 (yogen)
Portuguese: co-seno m
Spanish: coseno#Spanish|coseno m
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See also
power series
secant
tangent
trigonometry

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