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Definition of Sines

1. sine [n] - See also: sine

Medical Definition of Sines

1. Short interspersed elements. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sines

Literary usage of Sines

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"is a valuable collection, and contains seven-figure logarithms to 101000, log sines and tangents to 2° at intervals of a second, and natural sines, ..."

2. History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan by Silas Farmer (1890)
"Supervisor, Bradshaw Hodgkinson; Clerk, Charles W. sines ; Justice of ... Supervisor, John Huston, 2d; Clerk, Mark sines ; Justice of the Peace, JB Cady, ..."

3. Elements of Surveying and Navigation: With Descriptions of the Instruments by Charles Davies (1866)
"A table of natural sines, therefore, shows the values of the sines, cosines, ... If the sines, cosines, tangents, and secants are known for arcs less than ..."

4. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry: With Applications in Mensuration by Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Davies (1858)
"TABLE OF NATURAL sines. 14. Let us suppose, that in a circle of a given ... If the radius of the circle is 1, the table is called a table of Natural sines. ..."

5. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"In this manner then all the sines and cosines are made, by only one constant multiplication and a subtraction, up to 30 degrees, forming thus the sines of ..."

6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"Those before us, which have the same introduction, one in Latin, the other in French, the third in German, have sines, tangents, secants, and logarithms of ..."

7. Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by David Andrew Rothrock (1910)
"The Theorem of sines. Let a spherical triangle be represented by ABC, Fig. 58. If no angle be a right angle, the triangle is called oblique. ..."

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