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Of, relating to, or involving the branch of mathematics that deals with the relations between the sides and angles of plane or spherical triangles, and the calculations based on them.

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  • After some remarkable publications upon the trigonometrical junction of
  • Santobong peak is 2050 feet, or thereabouts, by a rough trigonometrical measurement.
  • He wrote a treatise in twelve Books on Chords in a Circle, equivalent to a table of trigonometrical sines.
  • The force required to move the thing up a slope is directly proportional not to the angle, but to the trigonometrical sine of that angle.
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