Usually means: Ratio of adjacent to hypotenuse.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cosine: Merriam-Webster
  2. cosine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cosine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cosine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cosine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cosine, cosine: Wordnik
  7. cosine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cosine: Wiktionary
  9. cosine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cosine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cosine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cosine: Dictionary.com
  13. COSINE, Cosine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cosine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cosine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cosine: Rhymezone
  17. Cosine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. COSINE, cosine: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. cosine: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cosine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cosine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cosine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COSINE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. COSINE: CCI Computer
  3. Cosine (trigonometric function), cosine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COSINE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cosine: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. cosine, cosine, cosine, cosine: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cosine: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cosines as well.)

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noun:  (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos

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