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Meanings of cos in English

Catalan
enciam romà
Wikidata

Lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head.

enciam romà
Portuguese
co-seno
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Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.

co-seno
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Examples for "cosine"
Examples for "cosine"
1
Go ahead and solve the above expression for the cosine of θ.
Wired
2
Two functions that meet those requirements are the sine and cosine functions.
Wired
3
I have never used a sine or cosine in my everyday life.
The Guardian
4
In y-equation, it has the sin of θ but I have cosine.
Wired
5
See, this triangle has the same value for cosine of θ.
Wired

A Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, off the Anatolian coast of Turkey.

Usage of cos in English
1
The teacher plays with me cos the other boys are so big.
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
2
I know she looked, 'cos she couldn't quite meet my eye afterwards.
The Fearless
3
Everybody's afraid to say something 'cos you're going to hurt someone's feelings.
The Guardian
4
It's very deceiving, field sobriety test, cos it's very easy at first.
Love All The People
5
Yes, cos only in LA does common courtesy have to be legislated.
Love All The People
6
And I don't have to be anyone different, cos this is me.
The Guardian
7
Dad made me do it, 'cos he's scairt of old man Steadman.
The Second Chance
8
Actually the whole AASABC must take a break cos they are captured.
The South African
9
I thought: people will laugh at me 'cos I'm doing superhero comics.
The Guardian
10
It's getting to be a real bugger cos I'm not even asleep.
The undertaker's gift
11
I don't, cos wot ud keep us all from the pore-'us den.
Twilight Stories
12
There's no way of tellin' it, 'cos it don't' fit into words.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
13
Yas'm, I reckons he would hafter be, 'cos he's a Carolinian gen'man.
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
14
She said I was a baby 'cos I wanted to play with Aoife.
The Irish Times
15
Cass must be thinking the same thing, 'cos she whispers, 'Myo, what if-
The Fearless
16
But that is good cos I need a goal to celebrate.
The South African
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Cos through the time
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