trigonometrical

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Sea, of the coasts of which this skilful and enterprising seaman made a cursory survey, from which emanated the subsequent trigonometrical operations which form our present maps.

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  1. Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by or according to the rules of trigonometry.
  2. Trigonometrical canon a table of the numerical values or trigonometrical functions; especially, a very extensive and fundamental table, from which smaller tables are extracted.
  3. Trigonometrical Curve a curve whose equation involves trigonometrical aud no higher functions.

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  • Committed by his own declaration in 1828 to the necessity for a trigonometrical survey, which indeed would seem to have been indispensably necessary for the desired division of the country, he was adjudged twenty-seven years later to have failed in the completion of this task. —  Thomas Mitchell
  • Measuring the River I am always amazed that people travel around with a measuring pole, a trigonometrical kit, measuring tapes, lenses, and all the stuff they need to do these things. —  The daily irrelevant
  • And, he apparently is well educated, as he knows the number pi and trigonometrical functions like sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, arctan and the functions sqrt and exp. —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • Introduction 33.2 Some basic formulae 33.3 Doman and range of trigonometrical … Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • I had now measured bases, besides those of latitude for my trigonometrical work, and I should not have regretted even a day longer in camp, to have had more time to protract angles, but time was too precious, as my men were voluntarily on very reduced rations. —  Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
 

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