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cosinus

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Learned borrowing from New Latin cosinus, abbreviation of complementi sinus. Doublet of cosine.

noun cosinus · cosinuses

Synonym of cosine. When I came to these very buildings to pass my examination I knew far better the names of all the plants in this garden than the theory of the cubic roots or the long formulæ of the sum of two cosinus.
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@misc{cosinus_2026,
  title = {cosinus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cosinus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}