spherical trigonometry
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spherical trigonometry
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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Once a mainstay of mathematics, spherical trigonometry no longer appears on school curricula.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2017
Using spherical trigonometry, the trackers plot a potential orbit and notify other amateurs worldwide where to look.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator.
From Time Magazine Archive
He invented the sciences of plane and spherical trigonometry, and was the first to use right ascensions and declinations.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
Before obtaining this result it is shown that spherical trigonometry is unchanged, and that the normals to a circle or a sphere still pass through its centre.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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