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2 words match “COVERSED SINE”

COVERSED SINE n.
The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
FUNCTION n.
the cotangent, OF is the secant OG is the cosecant, AD is the versed sine, and CE is the coversed sine of the are AB. If the length of AB be represented by x (OA being unity) then the lengths of Functions. these lines (OA being unity) are the trigonometrical functions of x, and are written sin x, cos x, tan x (or tang…