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Trigonometrical   Listen
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Trigonometrical, Trigonometric  adj.  Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry.
Trigonometrical curve, a curve one of whose coordinates is a trigonometric function of the other.
Trigonometrical function. See under Function.
Trigonometrical lines, lines which are employed in solving the different cases of plane and spherical trigonometry, as sines, tangents, secants, and the like. These lines, or the lengths of them, are trigonometrical functions of the arcs and angles to which they belong.
Trigonometrical survey. See under Survey.






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"Trigonometrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... is to see if he can connect the trigonometrical surveys of the two countries. It is quite singular that he should visit England for this purpose, so soon after Russia and England were at war. One of his sons was an ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell

... boards of perfect whiteness a black line is traced. The length of each of these lines is mathematically the same, for they have been determined with as much accuracy as the base of the first triangle in a trigonometrical survey. That done, the two boards were erected on the same day in the center of the conference room, and the two candidates, each armed with a fine needle, marched towards the board that had fallen to his lot. The man who planted his ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... proved to me that the chief of the Franciscans, notwithstanding his vow of humility, had taken offence at the want of ceremony in my fellow visitors. I was going to complain of the abrupt way in which he had treated me, but I had the necessities of our trigonometrical operations before my eyes, and I ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago



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