Synonyms for "secant" (46 found)

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Closest matches (10)

air lineairlineargumentaxisbeelinechiasmalchiasmicchiasticchordcrisscross

Strong matches (13)

crosscrosscutcrossedcrossingcut acrossdecussatedecussateddiagonaldiameterdirect linedirectrixedgeelement

Related words (23)

equationformulagreat-circle courseintersectedintersectingnormalperpendicularradiusradius vectorright linesegmentshortcutsidestraightstraight coursestraight linestraight stretchstraightawaystreamlinetangent

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transversalvector

Noun(1 words)

sec

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

3 entries

circular functionstraight linetrigonometric function

Related terms

3 entries

cosecantsectionsector

derived

7 entries

arcsecantbisecanthyperbolic secantquadrisecantsecancysecant methodsecantly

has context

2 entries

geometrytrigonometry

is a

2 entries

straight linetrigonometric function

related to

13 entries

anglecosecantcosinecurveintersectlinepointreciprocalright trianglesecsectionsectorstraight

Translations

55 translations across 32 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries

• sekans noun (in trigonometry)
• sekanse noun (in trigonometry)

Arabic

1 entries

• قَاطِع noun (in trigonometry)

Bulgarian

2 entries

• секанс noun (in trigonometry)
• секателна noun (in geometry)

Catalan

1 entries

• secant noun (in trigonometry)

Cebuano

1 entries

• kaliras noun (in trigonometry)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

• 割線 /割线 noun (in geometry)
• 正割 noun (in trigonometry)

Czech

2 entries

• sekans noun (in trigonometry)
• sečna noun (in geometry)

Danish

1 entries

• sekant noun (in geometry)

Finnish

3 entries

• leikkaaja noun (in geometry)
• sekantti noun (in geometry)
• sekantti noun (in trigonometry)

French

2 entries

• sécante noun (in geometry)
• sécante noun (in trigonometry)

German

2 entries

• Sekans noun (in trigonometry)
• Sekante noun (in geometry)

Greek

2 entries

• τέμνουσα noun (in geometry)
• τέμνουσα noun (in trigonometry)

Hindi

1 entries

• छेदक रेखा noun (in geometry)

Hungarian

2 entries

• szekáns noun (in trigonometry)
• szelő noun (in geometry)

Icelandic

1 entries

• sniðill noun (in geometry)

Ido

2 entries

• sekanto noun (in geometry)
• sekanto noun (in trigonometry)

Italian

1 entries

• secante noun (in trigonometry)

Japanese

3 entries

• セカント noun (in trigonometry)
• 割線 noun (in geometry)
• 正割 noun (in trigonometry)

Kannada

1 entries

• ಛೇದಕ noun (in geometry)

Khmer

1 entries

• សេកង់ noun (in trigonometry)

Polish

2 entries

• sekans noun (in trigonometry)
• sieczna noun (in geometry)

Portuguese

2 entries

• secante noun (in geometry)
• secante noun (in trigonometry)

Punjabi

1 entries

• ਛੇਦਕ ਰੇਖਾ noun (in geometry)

Romanian

2 entries

• secantă noun (in geometry)
• secantă noun (in trigonometry)

Russian

2 entries

• се́канс noun (in trigonometry)
• секу́щая noun (in geometry)

Spanish

2 entries

• secante noun (in geometry)
• secante noun (in trigonometry)

Tagalog

2 entries

• sekway noun (in trigonometry)
• tangab noun (in geometry)

Tamil

1 entries

• இணைச்செவ்வளை நேர்மாற்று noun (in trigonometry)

Thai

2 entries

• ซีแคนต์ noun (in trigonometry)
• เส้นตัด noun (in geometry)

Turkish

2 entries

• sekant noun (in geometry)
• sekant noun (in trigonometry)

Ukrainian

2 entries

• се́канс noun (in trigonometry)
• січна́ noun (in geometry)

Vietnamese

2 entries

• cát tuyến noun (in geometry)
• hàm sec noun (in trigonometry)

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