Cotan (Noun)
Meaning
Ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The cotan of an angle in a right-angled triangle is the ratio of the length of the adjacent side to the length of the opposite side.
- In trigonometry, the cotan function is the reciprocal of the tangent function.
- The cotan of 0 degrees is undefined, as the adjacent side has zero length.
- The cotan of an angle can be calculated using the formula: cotan = adjacent side / opposite side.
- In a right-angled triangle with a 30-degree angle, the cotan of the angle is equal to the square root of 3.