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Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, trigonometry
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the inverse function of the cosine; the angle that has a cosine equal to a given number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arc cosine, arccos, inverse cosine
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trigonometric function, circular function
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2erkw- Proto-Indo-European *h2erkwos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English cosine English arccosine From arc- + cosine.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
arcocosenu
— inverse of the cosine function
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Catalan:
arccosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Chinese Mandarin:
反餘弦 /反余弦
(fǎnyúxián)
— inverse of the cosine function
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Czech:
arkuskosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Dutch:
arccosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Finnish:
arkuskosini
— inverse of the cosine function
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French:
arc cosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Galician:
arco coseno
— inverse of the cosine function
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German:
Arkuskosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Hungarian:
arkuszkoszinusz
— inverse of the cosine function
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Italian:
arcocoseno
— inverse of the cosine function
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Japanese:
アークコサイン
(ākukosain)
— inverse of the cosine function
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Khmer:
អាកកូស៊ីនុស
(ʼaakkousiinuh)
— inverse of the cosine function
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Korean:
아크코사인
(akeukosain)
— inverse of the cosine function
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Māori:
whenu kōaro
— inverse of the cosine function
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Portuguese:
arco cosseno
— inverse of the cosine function
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Romanian:
arccosinus
— inverse of the cosine function
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Russian:
аркко́синус
(arkkósinus)
— inverse of the cosine function
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Spanish:
arcocoseno
— inverse of the cosine function