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In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, trigonometry
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cos
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trigonometric function, circular function
Etymology tree 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 From co- + sine, short for complementi sinus in Latin, meaning “sine of the complement”. Doublet of cosinus.
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
جَيْب تَمَام
(jayb tamām)
— trigonometric function
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Armenian:
կոսինուս
(kosinus)
— trigonometric function
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Azerbaijani:
kosinus
— trigonometric function
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Basque:
kosinu
— trigonometric function
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Bulgarian:
ко́синус
(kósinus)
— trigonometric function
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Burmese:
ကိုဆိုင်း
(kuihcuing:)
— trigonometric function
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Catalan:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Cebuano:
kalidpa
— trigonometric function
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Chinese Mandarin:
餘弦 /余弦
(yúxián)
— trigonometric function
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Czech:
kosinus
— trigonometric function
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Dutch:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Esperanto:
kosinuso
— trigonometric function
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Finnish:
kosini
— trigonometric function
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French:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Georgian:
კოსინუსი
(ḳosinusi)
— trigonometric function
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German:
Kosinus
— trigonometric function
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Greek:
συνημίτονο
(synimítono)
— trigonometric function
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Hebrew:
קוסינוס
(cosinus)
— trigonometric function
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Hungarian:
koszinusz
— trigonometric function
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Icelandic:
kósínus
— trigonometric function
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Irish:
comhshíneas
— trigonometric function
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Italian:
coseno
— trigonometric function
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Japanese:
コサイン
(kosain)
— trigonometric function
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Japanese:
余弦
(yogen)
— trigonometric function
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Khmer:
កូស៊ីនុស
(kousiinuh)
— trigonometric function
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Korean:
코사인
(kosain)
— trigonometric function
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Korean:
여현
(yeohyeon)
— trigonometric function
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Latvian:
kosinuss
— trigonometric function
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Macedonian:
косинус
(kosinus)
— trigonometric function
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Malay:
kosinus
— trigonometric function
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Manx:
co-heenys
— trigonometric function
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Māori:
whenu
— trigonometric function
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Norwegian Bokmål:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Polish:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Polish:
kosinus
— trigonometric function
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Portuguese:
co-seno
— trigonometric function
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Portuguese:
cosseno
— trigonometric function
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Romanian:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Russian:
ко́синус
(kósinus)
— trigonometric function
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Serbo-Croatian:
ко̀синус
— trigonometric function
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Serbo-Croatian:
kòsinus
— trigonometric function
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Sicilian:
cusinu
— trigonometric function
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Slovak:
kosínus
— trigonometric function
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Slovene:
kòsínus
— trigonometric function
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Spanish:
coseno
— trigonometric function
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Swedish:
cosinus
— trigonometric function
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Tagalog:
kasinway
— trigonometric function
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Tamil:
துணைசெவ்வளை
(tuṇaicevvaḷai)
— trigonometric function
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Thai:
โคไซน์
(koo-saai)
— trigonometric function
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Turkish:
kosinüs
— trigonometric function
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Ukrainian:
ко́синус
(kósynus)
— trigonometric function
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Vietnamese:
côsin
— trigonometric function