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sine

noun
/saɪn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine Borrowed from Latin sinus (“curve, bend; bosom”), a translation of Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “bosom”), a misidentification of the notation جيب (j-y-b), written without vowel diacritics, standing for Arabic جِيبَ (jība, “sine”), in turn from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “sine, chord, bowstring”) through the similar Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “sine, chord, life, existence”). Doublet of sinus.

  1. derived from ज्या
  2. derived from جَيْب
  3. borrowed from sinus

Definitions

  1. In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length…

    In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

  2. Acronym of short interspersed element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.

  3. Acronym of selective inhibitors of nuclear export, a drug for epithelioid sarcoma.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sine. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA