cosinus
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus. Doublet of cosine.
Noun edit
cosinus (plural cosinus or cosinuses)
- (trigonometry) Synonym of cosine.
- 1884, A[lbert] A[ugustin] Fauvel, Chinese Plants in Normandy, Hong Kong: […], page 4, column 1:
- When I came to these very buildings to pass my examination I knew far better the names of all the plants in this garden than the theory of the cubic roots or the long formulæ of the sum of two cosinus.
- 1884 November 29, “Aerial Navigation”, in Scientific American: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures, volume LI, number 22, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., translation of original by Victor Tatin in La Nature, page 342, column 1:
- So, in the helicopteron, as the helix is at the same time a sustaining plane, it should be likened to a surface moving horizontally, and in which, consequenty, the resistance to motion will be to the lifting power as the sinus is to the cosinus of the angle formed by such plane with the horizon.
- 1949, Contributions from the Astronomical Institute of the Charles University Prague, page 38:
- And according to our choice of a symmetrical conjunction or opposition, all the cosinuses are reduced to 1, namely to coefficients build up solely by scalar Keplerian elements a, e.
- 1996, Pentti Zetterberg, Matti Eronen, Markus Lindholm, “Construction of a 7500-Year Tree-Ring Record for Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.) in Northern Fennoscandia and its Application to Growth Variation and Palaeoclimatic Studies”, in Heinrich Spiecker, Kari Mielikäinen, Michael Köhl, Jens Peter Skovsgaard, editors, Growth Trends in European Forests (European Forest Institute Research Report; No. 5), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 15:
- The variations are described in terms of cycles of sinuses and cosinuses.
- 2007, Vladimir G. Ivancevic, Tijana T. Ivancevic, “Introduction: Human and Computational Mind”, in Computational Mind: A Complex Dynamics Perspective (Studies in Computational Intelligence; 60), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, →LCCN, section 1 (Natural Intelligence and Human Mind), pages 60–61:
- Basically, the rotation of the matrix of the factor loadings L represents its post-multiplication, i.e. L* = LO by the rotation matrix O, which itself resembles one of the matrices included in the classical rotational Lie groups SO(m) (containing the specific m–fold combination of sinuses and cosinuses.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cosinus m (invariable)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cosinus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cosinus m (plural cosinussen)
Related terms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cosinus m (plural cosinus)
- (trigonometry) cosine (trigonometric function)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “cosinus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus.
Noun edit
cosinus m (definite singular cosinusen, indefinite plural cosinuser, definite plural cosinusene)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “cosinus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus.
Noun edit
cosinus m (definite singular cosinusen, indefinite plural cosinusar, definite plural cosinusane)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “cosinus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cosinus m inan (related adjective cosinusowy)
- (trigonometry) cosine, cosinus (in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | cosinus | cosinusy |
genitive | cosinusa/cosinusu | cosinusów |
dative | cosinusowi | cosinusom |
accusative | cosinus | cosinusy |
instrumental | cosinusem | cosinusami |
locative | cosinusie | cosinusach |
vocative | cosinusie | cosinusy |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cosinus, from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus.
Noun edit
cosinus n (plural cosinusuri)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cosinus | cosinusul | (niște) cosinusuri | cosinusurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) cosinus | cosinusului | (unor) cosinusuri | cosinusurilor |
vocative | cosinusule | cosinusurilor |
Swedish edit
Noun edit
cosinus c
Declension edit
Declension of cosinus | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cosinus | cosinusen | cosinusar | cosinusarna |
Genitive | cosinus | cosinusens | cosinusars | cosinusarnas |