Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In navigation, half the versed sine. The word was introduced by James Inman in the 1835 edition of his “Navigation.”
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- noun trigonometry The
haversed sine .
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Examples
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With the log haversine S enter table 45 in the adjacent parallel column, take out the corresponding Natural Haversine, which mark N_ .
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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Add together the log haversine of the S.H.A. (Table 45), the log cosine of the Lat.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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T.e result will be the log haversine of the S.H.A. or L.A.T. It must always be less than 10.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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(Table 44), and the log cosine of the Dec. (Table 44) and call the sum S. S.is a log haversine and must always be less than
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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I still have in a basement file cabinet my copy of Bowditch with its haversine tables.
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Like its cousin the haversine, the hacoversine is mainly useful for doing trig on a sphere when you don't have a calculator handy to square the familiar trig functions.
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Commonly used waveforms that are pre-programmed into the software include sin (x)/x, exponential rise-and-fall, logarithmic rise-and-fall, Gaussian, Lorentz, haversine and cardiac waveforms.
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The haversine has its own twin, the havercosine, which is the vercosine divided by 2.
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Commonly used waveforms that are pre-programmed into the software include sin (x)/x, exponential rise-and-fall, logarithmic rise-and-fall, Gaussian, Lorentz, haversine and cardiac waveforms.
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Commonly used waveforms that are pre-programmed into the software include sin (x)/x, exponential rise-and-fall, logarithmic rise-and-fall, Gaussian, Lorentz, haversine and cardiac waveforms.
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The versine is 1 minus the cosine; the haversine is half of the versine.
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