NOUN
- a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
- ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
How To Use secant In A Sentence
- The secant of this angle is 1.61806 which is remarkably close to the golden ratio 1.618034.
- No I'm not, that's quite the negative cosecant.
- HYPERBOLIC ARCSECANT Figure 4-11 is a graph of the function y ¼ arcsech x (or y ¼ sechÀ1 x). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- I can't tell the difference between radians, tangents, cotangents, secants, etc.
- If your calculator does not have keys for the cosecant (csc), secant (sec), or cotangent (cot) functions, fi rst Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- If we are operating on some variable x, the arctangent of x is denoted tanÀ1 (x) or arctan (x) The inverse of the cosecant function is the arccosecant function. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- After the creation of the universe, light speed declined following a curve approximating the curve of the cosecant squared. Kiwiblog
- Direct irradiance was attenuated as described by Beer's law, with the optical path length increasing approximately as the secant of the solar zenith angle.
- Note that the air mass is approximately equal to the secant of the zenith angle (that angle from directly overhead to a line intersecting the sun).
- On this topic, it isn't completely clear to me why we make kids memorize what the secant, cosecant, and cotangent are. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
