Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation cosine
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
cosine . - noun A kind of lettuce, suited for being grown out of doors in summer, usually forming long heads or rosettes.
- noun See
coss .
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- noun A variety of
lettuce with long, crisp leaves. - noun trigonometry a symbol of the
trigonometric function cosine . - conjunction UK
because
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- noun ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- noun lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
Etymologies
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Examples
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You know for example, that: sin (4x) = 2sin (2x) cos (2x) sin (2x) = 2sin (x) cos (x) cos (2x) = cos² (x) - sin² (x), etc ...
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cos A + iSinA + cos C +iSin C = 2 (cos B+ iSinB) cos A+Cos C +i (sin A +sin c) = 2cosb + i2sin b cos a +cos c = 2 cos b sin a +sin c = 2 sin b
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Again dy_2 = - 3l cos [theta] {4 cos² [theta] - 3} d [theta] = - 3 {4 cos²
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Rachel Roy's grandmama style is interesting, who designs for her label cos it cant possibly be the same person.
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He cannot win cos he will not get the vote of the blue collar uneducated whites.
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First, Bush said "let's go in cos Saddam has WMDs", when none were found, he said, "well, he possessed the intent to make WMDs", when that did not wash, he said, "well, sadamm's regime was tyrannical and the is safer place".
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We can all laugh but wait till all them suicides starting rolling in cos they have lost all their (YOUR) money-I remember 1987 and we were so busy on suicides and mispers that we got overtime out of it!!!! on October 10, 2008 at 8: 41 am | Reply Rogerborg
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You are darn right, we chicken out of who we are or what we believe in cos of branding or tagging.
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While Congress was negotiating a recovery package to bring our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, some deficit hawks were promoting the notion that the short-term cos ...
Barbara B. Kennelly: Commissions, Cuts and Crisis Calls 2009
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While Congress was negotiating a recovery package to bring our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, some deficit hawks were promoting the notion that the short-term cos ...
Barbara B. Kennelly: Commissions, Cuts and Crisis Calls 2009
brandelion commented on the word cos
'cause, because
December 4, 2006