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COTAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cotan mean?
• COTAN (noun)
The noun COTAN has 1 sense:
1. ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle
Familiarity information: COTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
cotan; cotangent
Hypernyms ("cotan" is a kind of...):
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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