Cosine Synonyms

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Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cos

Words Related to Cosine

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. cartesian coordinates
  2. sine
  3. polar-coordinates
  4. radian
  5. theta
  6. orthogonal
  7. tanh
  8. trigonometric
  9. arctan
  10. logarithmic
  11. S-matrix

Cosine Sentence Examples

  • The inverse cosine is defined only in the domain from ` -1 ' to ` 1 ' .

  • Consequently, one of the forms suitable for the teeth of wheels is the involute of a circle; and the obliquity of the action of such teeth is the angle whose cosine is the ratio of the radius of their base-circle to that of the pitch-circle of the wheel.

  • On examining the diagram it will be observed that the maximum compressive stresses are parallel to and near to the down stream face of the section, which values are approximately equal to the maximum value of the vertical stress determined by the law of uniformly varying stress divided by the cosine squared of the angle between the vertical and the resultant.

  • Further, if polarized light fall at the polarizing angle on a reflecting surface, the intensity of the reflected stream depends upon the azimuth of the plane of incidence, being proportional to the square of the cosine of the angle between this plane and the plane of the polarization.

  • Each grid box was weighted by surface area, using the cosine of the latitude.

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