cotangent
IPA: koʊtˈændʒʌnt
noun
- (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the tangent of an angle. Symbols: cot, ctg, or ctn
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Examples of "cotangent" in Sentences
- Graph of the cotangent function for values of x between -3 rad and 3 rad.
- The graph of the cotangent function looks similar to that of the tangent function.
- Shit I forgot a dino egg guess cotangent did not want to hatch guess I will have to fix that
- On this topic, it isn't completely clear to me why we make kids memorize what the secant, cosecant, and cotangent are.
- We math majors could write term papers on cotangent bundles and prove the Bolzano Weirstrass theorem, but we don't know jack about T tests or chi-square.
- The curves have the same general shape, but while the tangent function always slopes upward as you move toward the right, the cotangent always slopes downward.
- The Right Triangle Model In the previous chapter, we de fi ned the six circular functions-sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, and cotangent-in terms of points on a circle.
- It can also be used for such operations as involution (raising to a power) and evolution (extraction of a root) and for calculations with trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent).
- Out on the various fronts the American soldiers grimly understood that they must hold on where they were for the sake of their comrades on other distant but nevertheless cotangent fronts on the circular line that guard Archangel.
- If we are operating on some variable x, the arccotangent of x is denoted cotÀ1 (x) or arccot (x) The sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, and cotangent require special restrictions in order for the inverses to be de fi nable as legitimate functions.
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