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n. - Ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle; A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.

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  • A secant wall is a wall constructed of concrete piles.
  • Why is the word secant used as the word for the reciprocals of sine and cosine? en Español
  • So: why is the word secant used as the word for the reciprocals of sine and cosine? what is the perimeter of a rhombus who's diagonals are 8 and 22? en Español
  • The secant is the reciprocal of the cosine, the cosecant is the reciprocal of the sine, and the cotangent is the reciprocal of the tangent.
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