Secant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SECANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a trigonometric function of an angle
• the ratio of the hypotenuse to the shorter side adjacent to an acute angle (in a right-angled triangle); the reciprocal of a cosine.
• a straight line that cuts a curve in two or more parts.
• a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points
• ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
• the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to the length of the adjacent side
ADJECTIVE:
• cutting
• Cutting; divivding into two parts; as, a secant line.
• A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points.
• A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• (in trigonometry) the ratio of the length of the hypotenuse to the length of the adjacent side

Words related to SECANT

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Words that contain SECANT

secants9 cosecant12 exsecant17 secantly13 cosecants13 exsecants18

How to use SECANT in a sentence

• The bullet had entered near the point of the shoulder, but a little below, so that it had merely cut a secant through the curve of the muscle.
• This inclination was small, and its secant varies slowly, so that any slight error in this angle would not appreciably affect the result.
• The whole secret of avoiding shipwreck is to try and pass from the secant to the tangent.

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