Definition of Sinical

1. a. Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant.

Definition of Sinical

1. Adjective. (dated mathematics) of, relating to, or constructed using sines ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sinical

1. relating to a function of an angle [adj]

Medical Definition of Sinical

1. Of or pertaining to a sine; employing, or founded upon, sines; as, a sinical quadrant. Origin: From Sine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinical

singularizing
singularly
singularness
singulars
singulative
singulatively
singulatives
singult
singultation
singultous
singults
singultus
sinh
sinhalite
sinhs
sinical (current term)
sinicisation
sinicise
sinicised
sinicises
sinicization
sinicize
sinicized
sinicizes
sinicizing
sinicuichi
sinigrase
sinigrin
sining
sinister

Literary usage of Sinical

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

1. The Guide to Railway Masonry: Containing a Complete Treatise on the Oblique by Peter Nicholson, R. Cowen (1860)
"Each of the curves thus drawn by means of a quadrantal arc, is called the figure of the sines, or a sinical curve ; therefore the projection of a ..."

2. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"sinical QUADRANT, ¡ь one of some use in Navigation. ... The chief use of the sinical quadrant, is to form upon it triangles similar to those made by a ..."

3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... next th' analogy is sought, And on the sinical triangle wrought : By this magnetic variance is ..."

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