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arctan

arctan is the abbreviation of arctangent.

Meaning of arctangent

Noun

arctangent (plural arctangents)

  1. Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹

Forms of arctan

pluralarctans
alternative formarctg

Origin of arctan

From arc- + translingual tan.

Questions about arctan

What is arctan the abbreviation of?
Arctan is the abbreviation of arctangent.

Words near arctan in the dictionary

  1. arcsines
  2. arcsinh
  3. arcsins
  4. Arctalian
  5. Arctamerican
  6. arctan
  7. arctangent
  8. arctangential
  9. arctangents
  10. arctanh
  11. arctans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arctan (page history and authors); arctangent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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