 | Ernest Julius Wilczynski - Plane trigonometry - 1914 - 296 pages
...its hypotenuse. The sine of A is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse. The cosine of A is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The tangent of A is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. The cotangent of A is the ratio of the... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Slaught - Logarithms - 1914 - 400 pages
...its hypotenuse. The sine of A is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse. The cosine of A is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The tangent of A ia the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. The cotangent oi A is the ratio of the... | |
 | Leonard Eugene Dickson - Plane trigonometry - 1922 - 225 pages
...sine is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse. The cosecant is the reciprocal of the sine. The cosine is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The secant is the reciprocal of the cosine. The tangent is the ratio of the opposite side . . , , . . .—.,... | |
 | Samuel Edward Dibble - Plumbing - 1922 - 648 pages
...sine (sin) of either acute angle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse. The cosine (cos) is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The tangent (tan) is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. The cotangent (cot) is the ratio of the... | |
 | Leonard Eugene Dickson - Plane trigonometry - 1922 - 232 pages
...cosine is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The secant is the reciprocal of the cosine. The tangent is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent. The cotangent is the recip- "«!*"'>"'' rocal of the tangent. These definitions should be memorized... | |
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A is the ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse. The tangent of A is the ratio of the opposite side to the adjacent side. 