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  • noun Plural form of cotangent.

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Examples

  • It was a touching sight to behold the venerable mathematician as he pleaded with me not so utterly to disregard precedent in the use of cotangents; or as he urged, with eyes almost tearful, that ordinates were dangerous things to trifle with.

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879

  • Representation and measures of angles; theory of sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, secants, cosecants and versed sines of angles; establishment of a table of general formulæ of trigonometrical functions for future reference; construction of numerical tables of trigonometrical functions; solutions of triangles, right and oblique; mensuration; surveying, geodesy and navigation.

    A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of The Furman University, for 1860-'61 Furman University 1861

  • This useless expenditure of time in acquiring a knowedge of circls lines and tangents is thought necessary to invigorate the mind To give it the requisite mou [l] d for the reception and retention of ideas acquired in after [life] And thus we are compelled to plod our way throug sins and cosins tangents and cotangents thrown together and forming an indigested moles without a single verdant and inviteing spot upon which to repose.

    Excerpts from the Diary of David A. Barnes, February 10 and 15, 1840 1840

  • Trade and travel are cotangents that unhinge autocracies.

    The New Republic - All Feed Robert Kagan 2010

  • Trade and travel are cotangents that unhinge autocracies.

    The New Republic - All Feed Robert Kagan 2010

  • Trade and travel are cotangents that unhinge autocracies.

    The New Republic - All Feed Robert Kagan 2010

  • The fame numbers are alfo the cofines; ind cotangents of the laft

    Mathematical Tables: Containing Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms ... 1785

  • Fill in the blank: '' The lengths of the sides of any triangle are in a constant ratio relative to the ____ of the angles opposite those sides. '' (a) tangents (b) sines (c) cosines (d) secants (e) cotangents 18.

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