Betekenis van:
cosine

cosine
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

    Synoniemen

    Hyperoniemen


    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. "Eh? Is the tangent cosine divided by sine?" "Other way round!"
    2. The functions sine and cosine take values between -1 and 1 (-1 and 1 included).
    3. The functions sine and cosine have a range of values between -1 and 1, inclusive.
    4. Spherical sensors (which respond to light from all angles above and below the plane of measurement) and ‘cosine’ sensors (which respond to light from all angles above the plane of measurement) are preferred to unidirectional sensors, and will give higher readings for a multi-point light source of the type described here.