Word: secants

Category: secants

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Related words: secants

tangents, secants and tangents, intersecting secants

Synonyms: secants

sec

Translations: secants

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spanish
Translations:
secantes, las secantes
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german
Translations:
sekanten, Sekanten, Sekans, Sekante, Secanten
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french
Translations:
sécantes, sécants, des sécantes, sécante, les sécantes
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italian
Translations:
secanti, delle secanti, secanti o
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portuguese
Translations:
secantes
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dutch
Translations:
secansen, secans, snijlijnen
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russian
Translations:
секущие, секущими
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norwegian
Translations:
sekanser, sekans
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swedish
Translations:
sekanter, sekansfunktionerna, sekansfunktionen
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finnish
Translations:
sekantit
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danish
Translations:
sekans, sekans til
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czech
Translations:
sečen
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turkish
Translations:
kesen, kesenleri, kesenin arakesiti
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greek
Translations:
τέμνουσες, τέμνουσες γραμμές
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ukrainian
Translations:
січні, січних
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belarusian
Translations:
сечнай, сечная, шэрай мітуснёй
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slovak
Translations:
Sečeň, kosený, sečníc, mesiačikov

The meaning and "use of": secants

noun
  • the ratio of the hypotenuse to the shorter side adjacent to an acute angle (in a right-angled triangle); the reciprocal of a cosine. - The secant of this angle is 1.61806 which is remarkably close to the golden ratio 1.618034.
  • a straight line that cuts a curve in two or more parts. - Note that the air mass is approximately equal to the secant of the zenith angle (that angle from directly overhead to a line intersecting the sun).

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