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се́канс

secant

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This is an orthographic projection onto a cylinder secant at the 30 parallels. en.wikipedia.org

For comparison, secant lines intersect a circle at two points, whereas another line may not intersect a circle at all. en.wikipedia.org

The secant or large-signal inductance is used in flux calculations. en.wikipedia.org

No tangent line can be drawn through a point in the interior of a circle, since any such line must be a secant line. en.wikipedia.org

The cosine, cotangent, and cosecant are so named because they are respectively the sine, tangent, and secant of the complementary angle abbreviated to co-. en.wikipedia.org

The tangent line is a limit of secant lines just as the derivative is a limit of difference quotients. en.wikipedia.org

This divides north-south distances by a factor equal to the secant of the latitude, preserving area but heavily distorting shapes. en.wikipedia.org

Continuous flight augering can be used to construct a secant piled wall which can be used as a retaining wall or as shoring during excavation. en.wikipedia.org

For a line, the secant between any two points is the line itself, but this is not the case for any other type of curve. en.wikipedia.org

Here we have assumed already known the integral of the secant function. en.wikipedia.org

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