Meanings of secant in English

The whole secret of avoiding shipwreck is to try and pass from the secant to the tangent.

Prove that the scraping-knife should never be a secant, and the brush always a tangent to a shoe.

This inclination was small, and its secant varies slowly, so that any slight error in this angle would not appreciably affect the result.

; Natural Tangents; Natural Secants, etc.

(1) Sect, section, non-sectarian, dissect, insect, intersection, sickle, vivisection, segment; (2) bisect, trisect, insection, sector, secant.

Contains the following Tables:-SevenFigure Logarithms (1-100,000) ;LogarithmicSines, Tangents and Secants; Natural Sines, Cosines, Versed Sines, Chords, etc.