 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...complement of that arc. Thus c G is the cotangent of AB, or of B a, or the tangent of its complement B c. c The secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre, through one end of the arc, and terminated by the tangent, or a line drawn perpendicular to... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...arc of 4 5 degrees, is equal in lens'th to th.radius of the circle, of which the arc is a part. 21. The secant of an arc, is a right line drawn from the i;entre, through one end of the arc, until it unites with the tanwent. Thus:—K, I, C, is the secant... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 pages
...that arc to a quadrant; thus HG is die tangent of the arc HS, or the cotangent of the arc AS, XXIV. The SECANT of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through one end of the arc to meet the tangent drawn from the other end ; thus CT is the secant... | |
 | Ezra S. Winslow - Business mathematics - 1853 - 264 pages
...the circumference, as the space B 0 a. A Secant is a line that cuts another line. In trigonometry, the secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre of a circle through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - 1868 - 252 pages
...cotangent of the angle AOM, and the tangent MS of the angle AOM, is the cotangent of the angle A OB. The secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre, through one extremity of the arc, and terminated by the tangent, or a line drawn perpendicular... | |
 | Nautical astronomy - 1880 - 880 pages
...that arc to a quadrant ; thus HG is the tangent of the arc HS, or the cotangent of the arc AS. XXIV. The SECANT of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through one end of tne arc to meet the tangent drawn from the other end ; thus CT is the secant... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - Hydrographic surveying - 1886 - 354 pages
...tangent of the angle A o B. and the tangent M s of the angle A o M is the cotangent of the angle A o B. The secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre, through one extremity of the arc, and terminated by the tangent, or a line drawn perpendicular... | |
 | William A. Morrison - Steam engineering - 1887 - 224 pages
...the circumference, as the space BO «. A Secant is a line that cuts another line. In trigonometry, the secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre of a circle through one end of the arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn through the other... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1888 - 704 pages
...of that arc to a quadrant; thus, 1IG is the tangent of the arc IIS, or the cotangent of the arc AS. The secant of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through one end of the ~A arc to meet the tangent drawn from the other end ; thus, CT is the... | |
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The SECANT of an arc is a right line drawn from the centre through one end of the arc to meet the tangent drawn from the other end ; thus CT is the secant of the arc AS. 