sine
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
Related words
- antisine
- homolosine
- nonsine
- sine-Gordon equation
- arcsine
- cosine
- sine curve
- sine wave
- sinical
- sinusoid
- sinusoidal
- coversed sine
Word history
From Sanskrit "जीव" (sine, chord, life, existence).
Where this comes from
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