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COSINE
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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)