cosine
cosines
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pluralof cosine.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The cosines of these angles are known as the direction cosines.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
In Example 2.25, the direction cosines of v = ⟨ 2, 3, 3 ⟩ are cos α = 2 , cos β = 3 , and cos γ = 3 .
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
The law of cosines can be thought of as a function of three variables.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Similarly we could express the product of cosines in terms of sine or derive other product-to-sum formulas.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
She smoked and talked and ate for an hour without stopping, and I scribbled in my notebook as the muddy waters of tangents and cosines began to clarify.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
