SINE
\sˈa͡ɪn], \sˈaɪn], \s_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of SINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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A straight line drawn from one extremity of an arc perpendicular to the diameter that passes through the other extremity.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The perpendicular dropped from one end of a circular arc upon the radius of the other end; the ratio of this perpendicular to the radius.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] A right line drawn perpendicular from, One extremity of an arc to the diameter drawn through the other extremity—thus d, c, being the arc, &c, the diameter, and a, d, the radius, a. b, is the sine of the arc d, c, and of the angled, a, c,— versed fine, that part of the diameter intercepted between the sine and the extremity of the arc—thus b. c, is the versed sine of the arc d, c, and of the angled, a, c.
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