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Meanings of cosine in English
Trigonometric function; ratio between the lengths of the adjacent side and the hypotenuse in a right triangle.
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Examples for "cos"
Examples for "cos"
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The teacher plays with me cos the other boys are so big.
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I know she looked, 'cos she couldn't quite meet my eye afterwards.
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Everybody's afraid to say something 'cos you're going to hurt someone's feelings.
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It's very deceiving, field sobriety test, cos it's very easy at first.
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Yes, cos only in LA does common courtesy have to be legislated.
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How does a calculator evaluate the cosine function?
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A cosine function within a 24-h period was used to characterize daily rhythms using a random regression.
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In this case, the vertical motion as a function of time would not be a sine or cosine function.
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Seasonality was expressed as a cosine function of a 12-month period, and its significance was evaluated using the Fisher-Yates shuffle method.
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Just using very simple forces, you get a trajectory that looks just like a cosine function - but with no circles.
Usage of cosine in English
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Go ahead and solve the above expression for the cosine of θ.
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Two functions that meet those requirements are the sine and cosine functions.
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I have never used a sine or cosine in my everyday life.
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In y-equation, it has the sin of θ but I have cosine.
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See, this triangle has the same value for cosine of θ.
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Using the sum of angles formula to evaluate the cosine is a mathematical exercise.
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C-squared equals a-squared plus b-squared minus 2 times a-b times the cosine of angle C.
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A cosine is the adjacent divided by the hypotenuse.
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The results support possible roles for leaky integration and cosine-shaped compass response functions in path integration.
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How does a calculator evaluate the cosine function?
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A cosine function within a 24-h period was used to characterize daily rhythms using a random regression.
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We also applied the concept of cosine similarity to confidently infer the associations between diseases and genes.
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The sine and cosine coefficients of the first harmonic are extracted from the gated views and reconstructed.
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The cosine of 90 degrees is zero.
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He invented tools for computation, navigation and surveying, and invented the trigonometry concepts of cosine and cotangent.
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Does everyone need to know what a cosine is if the UK is to have a brighter future?
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