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Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan−1
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, trigonometry
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arc tangent, arctan, inverse tangent
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 *teh2g- Proto-Italic *tangō Latin tangō Latin tangēns Latin tangentembor. English tangent English arctangent From arc- + tangent.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
arcotanxente
— inverse of tangent function
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Catalan:
arc tangent
— inverse of tangent function
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Chinese Mandarin:
反正切
(fǎnzhèngqiē)
— inverse of tangent function
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Czech:
arkustangens
— inverse of tangent function
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Dutch:
arctangens
— inverse of tangent function
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Finnish:
arkustangentti
— inverse of tangent function
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French:
arc tangente
— inverse of tangent function
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Galician:
arco tanxente
— inverse of tangent function
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German:
Arcustangens
— inverse of tangent function
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Hungarian:
arkusztangens
— inverse of tangent function
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Italian:
arcotangente
— inverse of tangent function
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Japanese:
アークタンジェント
(ākutanjento)
— inverse of tangent function
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Japanese:
逆正接関数
— inverse of tangent function
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Khmer:
អាកតង់សង់
(ʼaktângsâng)
— inverse of tangent function
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Korean:
아크탄젠트
(akeutanjenteu)
— inverse of tangent function
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Korean:
역삼각 함수
(yeoksamgak hamsu)
— inverse of tangent function
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Portuguese:
arco tangente
— inverse of tangent function
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Romanian:
arctangentă
— inverse of tangent function
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Russian:
аркта́нгенс
(arktángens)
— inverse of tangent function
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Spanish:
arcotangente
— inverse of tangent function
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Tamil:
தொடுவளை நேர்மாற்று
(toṭuvaḷai nērmāṟṟu)
— inverse of tangent function