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decant [dıˈkænt] VB trans

▶ decantation [ˌdiːkænˈteıʃən] N

recant [rıˈkænt] VB trans, intr

▶ recantation [ˌrıkænˈteıʃən] N

servant [ˈsɜːvənt] N

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The secant or large-signal inductance is used in flux calculations.
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Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a perspective (or azimuthal) projection, in which the sphere is projected onto a tangent plane or secant plane.
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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.
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Why did he never mention the secant, with which he in fact operated?
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For comparison, secant lines intersect a circle at two points, whereas another line may not intersect a circle at all.
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Each remaining case has a pair of secant linesa pair of identical latitudes of opposite sign (or else the equator) at which the east-west scale matches the north-south-scale.
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The tangent line is a limit of secant lines just as the derivative is a limit of difference quotients.
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Note that this line is a secant or chord of the graph of the function "f".
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It converges faster than the secant method.
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The false position method can be faster than the bisection method and will never diverge like the secant method, but fails to converge under some naive implementations.
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