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What is a cosine?

What is a cosine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos
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The sine and the cosine I shall have occasion to employ in the latter part of my lecture.
Not surprisingly, he also discovered the infinite power series for the cosine and the tangent.
The baseband AMSS waveform is generated by impulses shaped by a root raised cosine filter to control their spectral content.
Spectral analysis decomposes a variable into underlying sine and cosine functions of particular wavelengths or cycles.
In fact, it corresponds to the graph of a function called the hyperbolic cosine.
We show that the effective reflectance of the bottom is proportional to the average cosine of the bottom slope.

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