Trigonometry

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  • noun. The branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between the sides and the angles of triangles and the calculations based on them, particularly the trigonometric functions.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The mathematical doctrine of the calculation of the angles, sides, and areas of triangles, plane and spherical, together with that of other quantities intimately related to those. Trigonometry embraces also goniometry, or the elementary theory of singly periodic functions.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles.
  • noun. A treatise in this science.
  • noun. that branch of trigonometry which treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions.
  • noun. those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangles respectively.
  • noun. undefined
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The branch of mathematics that deals with the relationships between the sides and the angles of triangles and the calculations based on them, particularly the trigonometric functions.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
    • Word Usage
    "The term trigonometry was not used until the close of the sixteenth century."
    Equivalent
    spherical trigonometry  
    Hypernym
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    pure mathematics  
    Hyponym
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    spherical trigonometry  triangulation  
    Same Context
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    alchemy  algebra  arithmetic  arithmetick  astrology  
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    Boolean algebra  Euclidean geometry  Fourier analysis  Lagrangian function  algebra  
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