SINE
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sine¹
- /saɪn/
Sounds like sign, syne · Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
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Proto-Indo-European *sinos
Proto-Italic *sinus
Latin sinusbor.
English sine
Borrowed from Latin sinus (“curve, bend; bosom”), a translation of Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “bosom”), a misidentification of the notation جيب (j-y-b), written without vowel diacritics, standing for Arabic جِيبَ (jība, “sine”), in turn from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “sine, chord, bowstring”) through the similar Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “sine, chord, life, existence”). Doublet of sinus.
noun sines
- In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
SINE²
noun SINEs
- Acronym of short interspersed element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.short interspersed element
- Acronym of selective inhibitors of nuclear export, a drug for epithelioid sarcoma.selective inhibitors of nuclear export
