From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cosine \Co"sine\ (k?"s?n), noun [For co. sinus, an abbrev. of L. complementi sinus.] (Trig.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of {Functions}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle [syn: {cos}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe. A EUREKA project.
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
COSINE Cooperation for OSI Networking in Europe (org.)
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