Definitions for SINE

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SINE sine

Spelling: [sahyn]

IPA: /saɪn/

Sine is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in SINE (eins).

Definitions for SINE

noun

1. Trigonometry. (in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse. (of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
2. Geometry. (originally) a perpendicular line drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter that passes through its other extremity.
3. Mathematics. (of a real or complex number x) the function sin x defined by the infinite series x − (x 3 /3!) + (x 5 /5!) − + …, where ! denotes factorial. Compare cosine (def 2), factorial (def 1).
4. an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential:
5. an indispensable condition; requisite.

Origin of SINE

1585-95; New Latin, Latin sinus a curve, fold, pocket, translation of Arabic jayb literally, pocket, by folk etymology Sanskrit jiyā, jyā chord of an arc, literally, bowstring

Examples for SINE

A sine qua non is that the glass be hot enough to melt the shellac.

This unsmoked, wet-cured ham is the sine qua non of Parisian butcher shops: a light, ephemeral meat, sweet but umami.

Morality had a vogue in those days, was a sine qua non of fashion.

That accumulation of identities is already a sine qua non when speaking of Hispanics, like Zimmerman.

We require every man in the Army, for that is the 'sine qua non' of victory.

The complement of the logarithm of a sine, tangent, or secant.

This is a sine qua non, if the nitrate is to get a fair chance.

It is the sine qua non of any hopeful outlook for the future of mankind.

A little further up the street I seen a sine what sed, "This is the door."

In the land of the industrial revolution, foreign ownership and management is the sine qua non of industrial success.