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cotangent (n.)

in trigonometry, "the tangent of the complement of a given angle," a contraction of co. tangent, abbreviation of complement + tangent (n.).

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Definitions of cotangent from WordNet

cotangent (n.)
ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle;
Synonyms: cotan
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