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Trigonometrical   Listen
adjective
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Trigonometrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... years. Now the whole Highlands, western and northern, may be commanded in a month. Not that any one who knows what they are, will imagine that they can be exhausted in a lifetime. The man does not live who knows all worth knowing there; and were they who made the Trigonometrical Survey to be questioned on their experiences, they would be found ignorant of thousands of sights, any one of which would be worth a journey for its own sake. But now steam has bridged the Great Glen, and connected the two seas. ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... ascertaining the Value of Lifehold, Leasehold, and Church Property, Renewal Fines, &c. With numerous additional Tables—Chemical, Astronomical, Trigonometrical, Common and Hyperbolic Logarithms; Constants, Squares, Cubes, Roots, Reciprocals, &c. Fourth Edition. ...
— First Impressions of the New World - On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 • Isabella Strange Trotter



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