Definition of Circular function

1. Noun. Function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle.


Definition of Circular function

1. Noun. a trigonometric function ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Circular Function

circular anastomosis
circular arc
circular arcs
circular argument
circular arguments
circular bandage
circular breathing
circular definition
circular dichroism
circular fibres
circular file
circular files
circular firing squad
circular firing squads
circular folds
circular function (current term)
circular functions
circular layer of muscular coat
circular layer of tympanic membrane
circular layers of muscular tunics
circular letter
circular measure
circular mil
circular parries
circular parry
circular plane
circular polarized light
circular reaction
circular saw
circular saws

Literary usage of Circular function

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Electrical Engineering Problems by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1916)
"It will be found that circular function formulas involving only first powers, ... () But circular function formulas involving squares, or second powers of ..."

2. The Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus: And Their by Washington McCartney (1848)
"Determine the differential of a circular function. We defined a circular function to be one involving the variable in an arc or trigonometrical line, ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, with by Edward Albert Bowser (1886)
"For example, у = sin x; у = tan3 x; у = cos x sec x ; etc. A circular function is one in which the concept is a variable arc, ..."

4. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"... but a particular law of disturbance as regards the time is assumed, namely, that expressed by a single circular function. Now we know that any periodic ..."

5. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"(15) with the circular function taken always positive. When nl/v = ir, 7=0. Then 2ir/n = 2l/v, or the period of the impressed force coincides with the time ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"[log (gz)]3, and is further complicated by x not representing simple integer numbers, but a circular function of them. The search, therefore, by this method ..."

7. The Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Electrical Engineering Problems by Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1916)
"It will be found that circular function formulas involving only first powers, ... () But circular function formulas involving squares, or second powers of ..."

8. The Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus: And Their by Washington McCartney (1848)
"Determine the differential of a circular function. We defined a circular function to be one involving the variable in an arc or trigonometrical line, ..."

9. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, with by Edward Albert Bowser (1886)
"For example, у = sin x; у = tan3 x; у = cos x sec x ; etc. A circular function is one in which the concept is a variable arc, ..."

10. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"... but a particular law of disturbance as regards the time is assumed, namely, that expressed by a single circular function. Now we know that any periodic ..."

11. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"(15) with the circular function taken always positive. When nl/v = ir, 7=0. Then 2ir/n = 2l/v, or the period of the impressed force coincides with the time ..."

12. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"[log (gz)]3, and is further complicated by x not representing simple integer numbers, but a circular function of them. The search, therefore, by this method ..."

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