Trigonometry Synonyms

trĭgə-nŏmĭ-trē
The mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. trig

Words Related to Trigonometry

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. analytic-geometry
  2. matrix-algebra
  3. algebra
  4. spherical trigonometry
  5. linear-algebra
  6. probability-theory
  7. calculus
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Trigonometry Sentence Examples

  • The introduction of hyperbolic functions into trigonometry was also due to him.

  • Beyond this point, analytical methods must be adopted, and the student passes to trigonometry and the infinitesimal calculus.

  • By means of this instrument questions in navigation, trigonometry, &c., are solved with the aid of a pair of compasses.

  • In "geodesy," and the cognate subject "figure of the earth," the matter of greatest moment with regard to the sphere is the determination of the area of triangles drawn on the surface of a sphere - the so-called "spherical triangles"; this is a branch of trigonometry, and is studied under the name of spherical trigonometry.

  • Ptolemaei magnam compositionem (printed at Venice in 1496), and his own De Triangulis (Nuremberg, 1533), the earliest work treating of trigonometry as a substantive science.

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