cosecant
Meaning of cosecant
noun
the ratio of the hypotenuse (in a right-angled triangle) to the side opposite an acute angle; the reciprocal of sine.
early 18th century: from modern Latin cosecant-, from co- ‘mutually’ + Latin secant- ‘cutting’ (from the verb secare ). Compare with secant.
Information about cosecant
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cosecant is: cosecants.
- Languages in which cosecant is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of cosecant
co-se-cant
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- cosecant is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Anagrams of cosecant
Words that rhyme with cosecant
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