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- noun Plural form of
cosecant .
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Seated at the same table as herself was a skilful sailor, using logarithms, secants and cosecants, polar distances and hour angles, as if he were in some university class-room.
The Captain of the Kansas Louis Tracy 1895
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Representation and measures of angles; theory of sines, cosines, tangents, cotangents, secants, cosecants and versed sines of angles; establishment of a table of general formulæ of trigonometrical functions for future reference; construction of numerical tables of trigonometrical functions; solutions of triangles, right and oblique; mensuration; surveying, geodesy and navigation.
A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of The Furman University, for 1860-'61 Furman University 1861
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