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Cosecant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The reciprocal of the sine of an angle in a right triangle.

n. The secant of the complement of a directed angle or arc.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the sine of an angle. Symbols: cosec, csc

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of functions.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In trigonom., the secant of an angle or arc equal to the difference between a given angle or are (whose cosecant it is) and 90°; the secant of the complement of the given angle or arc. See complement.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle

Word Usage

"Add together the secant of the Latitude, the cosecant of the P.D., the cosine of the Half Sum and the sine of the Difference (Table 44)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

trigonometric function circular function

Variant

functions