c 3 o 1 s 1 i 1 n 1 e 1
6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English cosine From co- + sine, short for complementi sinus in Latin, meaning “sine of the complement”. Doublet of cosinus.
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