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arccos

arccos is the abbreviation of arccosine.

Meaning of arccosine

Noun

arccosine (plural arccosines)

  1. Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.
    Synonyms:
    anticosine, inverse cosine, arccos, cos-1

Forms of arccos

pluralarccoses

Origin of arccos

From arc- + cos.

Questions about arccos

What is arccos the abbreviation of?
Arccos is the abbreviation of arccosine.

Words near arccos in the dictionary

  1. Arcas
  2. Arcata
  3. Arcatao
  4. arcature
  5. arcatures
  6. arccos
  7. arccosecant
  8. arccosecants
  9. arccoses
  10. arccosh
  11. arccosine

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