Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sine   /saɪn/   Listen
noun
Sine  n.  (Trig.)
(a)
The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.
(b)
The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.
Artificial sines, logarithms of the natural sines, or logarithmic sines.
Curve of sines. See Sinusoid.
Natural sines, the decimals expressing the values of the sines, the radius being unity.
Sine of an angle, in a circle whose radius is unity, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.



preposition
Sine  prep.  Without.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Sine" Quotes from Famous Books



... their nets, and killed them. He therefore straightway ordered a wolf-hunt to be held in my parish. But when the fellow came to toll the bell for a wolf-hunt, he did not stop awhile, as is the wont for wolf-hunts, but loudly rang the bell on, sine mord, so that all the folk thought a fire had broken out, and ran screaming out of their houses. My child also came running out (I myself had driven to visit a sick person at Zempin, seeing that walking began to be wearisome to me, and that ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold

... leges sine moribus.' The whole moral principle of a nation is contaminated by the legislative authorization and judicial sanction of a practice dishonest in itself, which necessarily includes not merely a permission, ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... est; erit peril articulo brevis horae Ergo quid prodest esse fuisse fore Esse fuisse fore trio florida sunt sine flore Cum simul omne peril ...
— The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 • Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone

... Walewein harde blide Ende bant hem sine wonden ten tide Met selken crude die daer dochten Dat si ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston

... and everybody went to the train, after joining hands around the middle ring and singing "Old Lang Sine," pa and I and the managers went to a hotel to organize our expedition to the far west in search of talent for a wild west show that shall be the greatest ever put under canvas. After all had gone away, and only pa and I and the managers were left, it seemed, as ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org