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What is the noun for sine?

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sine
  1. (mathematics) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This computation was effected by using the multiples of twice the versed sine formerly employed.”
      “The addition theorems for the hyperbolic secent, cosecent, versed sine, and haversed sine are not interesting.”
      “Open linear shapes are the contours of nurses' stations, curved forms the sine waves of various organ-function monitors.”
sines
  1. plural of sine
  2. (rare) pair of sixes of dice
  3. Examples:
    1. “Hence the cosines and versed sines of zenith distances are respectively equal to the sines and coversed sines of the corresponding angular elevations.”
      “This turned out to be a complicated affair, for Sines still belonged to the Order of Santiago.”
      “Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas.”
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