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Sine vs Cone - What's the difference?

sine | cone |

As nouns the difference between sine and cone

is that sine is while cone is cone.

sine

English

(wikipedia sine)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (trigonometry, mathematics) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

    • Usage notes

    In various branches of mathematics, the sine of an angle is determined in various ways, including the following: * The y''-coordinate]] of the point on the unit circle at the given anticlockwise angle from the [[x-axis, ''x -axis. * The sum of the real or complex power series

         \sum_{n=1}^\inftyx^{2n-1} = x - {1\over 6} x^3 + {1\over 120} x^5 - {1\over 5040} x^7 + ...

    where x is in radians.

    Synonyms

    * Symbol: sin

    Derived terms

    * arcsine * cosine * sine wave * sinusoid * sinusoidal

    See also

    * cosecant * cotangent * secant * tangent * trigonometry

    Anagrams

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    cone

    English

    (wikipedia cone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
  • (label) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
  • (label) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
  • Anything shaped like a cone.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
  • The fruit of a conifer.
  • An ice cream cone.
  • A traffic cone
  • A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
  • Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
  • (label) The bowl piece on a bong.
  • (label) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
  • (label) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
  • (label) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
  • (label) Given a diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a ''cone'' consists of an object ''N'' of ''C'', together with a family of morphisms ψ''X'' : ''N'' → ''F''(''X'') indexed by all of the objects of ''J'', such that for every morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' in ''J'', F(f) \circ \psi_X = \psi_Y . Then ''N'' is the ''vertex'' of the ''cone'', whose ''sides'' are all the ψ''X'' indexed by Ob(''J'') and whose ''base'' is ''F''. The ''cone'' is said to be "from ''N'' to ''F''" and can be denoted as (''N , ψ).
    • «Let J'' be an index category which has an initial object ''I''. Let ''F'' be a diagram of type ''J'' in ''C''. Then category ''C'' contains a cone from ''F''(''I'') to ''F .»
    «If category C'' has a cone from ''N'' to ''F'' and a morphism from ''M'' to ''N'', then category ''C'' also has a cone from ''M'' to ''F .»
  • A shell of the genus Conus , having a conical form.
  • A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.

    • Synonyms

    * (geometry) conical surface * (ice cream cone) cornet, ice cream cone

    Derived terms

    {{der3, coneflower , conepiece , conic , conic section , ice cream cone , nose cone , traffic cone}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, coign , coin , quoin , cuneiform}}

    See also

    * quean * queen

    Verb

  • (label) To fashion into the shape of a .
  • (label) To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones
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    Anagrams

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