- line
touches the
circle of unit radius,
whereas secant stems from
Latin secans—"cutting"—since the line cuts the circle. The
prefix "co-" (in "cosine"...
-
SECAN, Société d'Etudes et de
Construction Aéro-Navales was a
French aircraft manufacturer, a
branch of the Société des
usines Chausson (SUC).
SECAN Courlis...
- In mathematics,
hyperbolic functions are
analogues of the
ordinary trigonometric functions, but
defined using the
hyperbola rather than the circle. Just...
- the
secant variety, in
algebraic geometry secant (trigonometry) (Latin:
secans), the
multiplicative inverse (or reciprocal)
trigonometric function of the...
- "co" in "cosine"): The same is true of
secant (Latin:
secans) and
cosecant (Latin: cosecans,
secans complementi) as well as of
tangent (Latin: tangens)...
- In mathematics, the
inverse trigonometric functions (occasionally also
called antitrigonometric, cyclometric, or
arcus functions) are the
inverse functions...
- The term soke (/ˈsoʊk/; in Old English: soc,
connected ultimately with
secan, "to s****"), at the time of the
Norman conquest of England,
generally denoted...
- line
segment external to a
circle with one
endpoint on the cir****ference a
secans exterior. The
trigonometric secant,
named by
Thomas Fincke (1583), is more...
- by
Franc Metelko in his New
Almanac from 1824. The name was also
spelled sečan,
meaning "the
month of
cutting down of trees". In 1848, a
proposal was put...
- In mathematics, the
inverse hyperbolic functions are
inverses of the
hyperbolic functions,
analogous to the
inverse circular functions.
There are six in...
