Ratio of the hypotenuse of a triangle to the adjacent side of an angle.
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The whole secret of avoiding shipwreck is to try and pass from the secant to the tangent.
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Prove that the scraping-knife should never be a secant, and the brush always a tangent to a shoe.
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This inclination was small, and its secant varies slowly, so that any slight error in this angle would not appreciably affect the result.
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; Natural Tangents; Natural Secants, etc.
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(1) Sect, section, non-sectarian, dissect, insect, intersection, sickle, vivisection, segment; (2) bisect, trisect, insection, sector, secant.
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Contains the following Tables:-SevenFigure Logarithms (1-100,000) ;LogarithmicSines, Tangents and Secants; Natural Sines, Cosines, Versed Sines, Chords, etc.