Secants - English meaning
Secants – definitions in English dictionary
nounThe ratio of the hypotenuse to the shorter side adjacent to an acute angle (in a right-angled triangle); the reciprocal of a cosine.
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The secant of this angle is 1.61806 which is remarkably close to the golden ratio 1.618034.nounA straight line that cuts a curve in two or more parts.
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Note that the air mass is approximately equal to the secant of the zenith angle (that angle from di…
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Word origin
late 16th century; from French sécante, based on Latin secare ‘to cut’.
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