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Definition of Secants

1. secant [n] - See also: secant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secants

Literary usage of Secants

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

1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"For diameters of an ellipse, and of opposite hyperbolas, are secants that intersect in the centre : and because they are bisected there, this proposition is ..."

2. The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Containing All the Instructions by Robert Gibson, D. P. Adams (1811)
"This tahle contains the logarithmic, or, as they are sometimes call- ad, the artificial sines, tangents, and secants, to each degree and minute of the ..."

3. Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry by George Albert Wentworth (1877)
"If from a point without a circle two secants be drawn, the whole secants and the parts without the ... Let OB and 0 С be two secants drawn from point 0. ..."

4. Geometrical Analysis, and Geometry of Curve Lines: Being Volume Second of a by John Leslie (1821)
"CURVE OF secants. If, from a given point in an extended line, segments be taken equal to the arcs of a given circle, and perpendiculars erected equal to the ..."

5. Tracts on Mathematical and Philosophical Subjects: Comprising Among Numerous by Charles Hutton (1812)
"HAVING long since thought it would be a meritorious and useful service, to adapt the tables of sines, tangents, and secants, to equal parts of the radius, ..."

6. An Elementary Course in Analytic Geometry by John Henry Tanner, Joseph Allen (1898)
"Definitions of secants, tangents, and normals. A straight line will, in general, intersect any given curve in two or more distinct points ; it is then ..."

7. Miscellanea Curiosa: Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal by James Hodgson, William Derham, Richard Mead, Royal Society (Great Britain) (1708)
"Richard Norris, concerning the Collection of secants; and the true ... AN old enquiry, (about the Sum or Aggre- _£X gate of secants) having been of late ..."

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