Definition of Cotans

1. cotan [n] - See also: cotan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotans

cosy
cosy up
cosying
cosying up
cosyntropin
cosysop
cosysops
cot
cot-caught merger
cot-quean
cot death
cot deaths
cotan
cotangent
cotangents
cotans (current term)
cotarnine
cotch
cotchel
cotchels
cote
cote d'ivoire
coteau
coteaux
cotectic
coted
cotehardies
coteline
cotelines

Literary usage of Cotans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Colonial Tracts Monthly by John Smith (1897)
"... under the command of one Hubert Farrill, coTans under to ferret out a company of the rebels who kept man"3"" ' guard at Colonel Bacon's, under the power ..."

2. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1872)
"... w 1 3^ • cotans i. Fig. 118. p, being everywhere positive, there is in this dome no joint of rupture. ..."

3. A Treatise on Higher Trigonometry by John Bascombe Lock (1884)
"... of angles less than 5°, the L cosine and L secants of angles greater than 85°, the L tans and L cotans of angles less than 5° and greater than 85°. 109. ..."

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