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Definition of Cosecants
1. cosecant [n] - See also: cosecant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosecants
Literary usage of Cosecants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Plane & Spherical Trigonometry: With Their by Benjamin Peirce (1861)
"... CHAPTER V. VALUES OF THE SINES, COSINES, TANGENTS, COTANGENTS, SECANTS, AND
cosecants OF CERTAIN ANGLES. 54. The definitions of sine, cosine, ..."
2. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by James Morford Taylor (1905)
"Similarly the curve of cosecants can be constructed, three branches of which are
represented by the dotted curved lines in fig. 53. F1G.53 82. ..."
3. A Treatise on Algebra by George Peacock (1845)
"ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CANON OF SINES AND COSINES, TANGENTS AND COTANGENTS,
SECANTS AND cosecants. What is 797- WE have hitherto considered sines and ..."
4. An Analytical Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and the Analysis by Dionysius Lardner (1828)
"Given the cosecants and cotangents of two angles, to find the cosecant of their
sum and difference. Taking the reciprocals of [1], and eliminating the sines ..."
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