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cosine

a mathematical term
Not to be confused with:
cosign – to sign a document jointly with another; to endorse, as for a mortgage: his father cosigned the loan on his new car
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cosine
cos θ = b/c

co·sine

 (kō′sīn′)
n. Abbr. cos
1. In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
2. The abscissa at the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative.
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cosine

(ˈkəʊˌsaɪn)
(of an angle) n
(Mathematics) a trigonometric function that in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to that of the hypotenuse; the sine of the complement. Abbreviation: cos
[C17: from New Latin cosinus; see co-, sine1]
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co•sine

(ˈkoʊ saɪn)

n.
a. (in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
b. the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbr.: cos
[1625–35; < New Latin cosinus. See co-, sine]
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co·sine

(kō′sīn′)
The ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle of a right triangle to the length of the hypotenuse.
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Noun1.cosine - ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle
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Translations
cosinus
kosinus
kosini
コサイン余弦
cosinus

cosine

[ˈkəʊsaɪn] Ncoseno m
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cosine

nKosinus m
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cosine

[ˈkəʊsaɪn] n (Math) → coseno
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Taking into account simple wavy geometry (cosine or squared cosine) the contact problems with more complicated boundary conditions were studied: sliding problem with friction [15,16], with a fluid lubricant [17], with a partial slip [11,18], with adhesion and sliding friction [19 ], for viscoelastic material [20], for Winkler model of viscoelastic material and adhesion [21], for elastic layer with presence of friction and wear [22], and dynamic problem for anisotropic half-plane [23].
Highly Accurate but Ambiguous Estimation of Directional Cosine. Assuming that [d.sub.x] = [d.sub.y] = d = [lambda]/2,[d.sub.z] = Kd, where K is a positive integer and K > 1.
Property 1 (the left-sided Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives of the sine and cosine functions).
Key words: cosine operator function, Blackman-type approximation processes, Rogosinski-type approximation processes, modulus of continuity, Fourier series of symmetric functions with respect to [pi].
The wavelet transform of the image can be obtained without dividing the image in to different block and it gives better performance as compared to the Discrete Cosine Transform.