Usually means: Reciprocal of the tangent function.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word cotangent:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cotangent: Merriam-Webster
  2. cotangent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cotangent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cotangent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cotangent: Vocabulary.com
  6. cotangent: Wordnik
  7. cotangent: Wiktionary
  8. cotangent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cotangent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cotangent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cotangent: Dictionary.com
  12. Cotangent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cotangent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cotangent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cotangent: Rhymezone
  16. Cotangent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cotangent: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cotangent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cotangent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cotangent (trigonometric function), cotangent: Encyclopedia

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

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▸ noun:  (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the tangent of an angle. Symbols: cot, ctg, or ctn

Similar:
cothangent, arc cotangent, excosecant, excsc, arc cosecant, arccoth, coversin, coversine, catenoid, coaxis, more...

Opposite:
tangent, adjacent/hypotenuse

Types:
secant, tangent, cosine, sine, versine, haversine, more...

Phrases:
Cotangent bundle, hyperbolic cotangent, inverse cotangent, arc cotangent, Cotangent space, more...

Adjectives:
hyperbolic, natural, tangent, logarithmic, tan, generated, cosine

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Similar:
cothangent, arc cotangent, excosecant, excsc, arc cosecant, arccoth, coversin, coversine, catenoid, coaxis, more...

Opposite:
tangent, adjacent/hypotenuse

Types:
secant, tangent, cosine, sine, versine, haversine, more...

Phrases:
Cotangent bundle, hyperbolic cotangent, inverse cotangent, arc cotangent, Cotangent space, Cotangent complex, more...

Adjectives:
hyperbolic, natural, tangent, logarithmic, tan, generated, cosine



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