Meanings
nounhyperbolic cosine (plural hyperbolic cosines)
plural hyperbolic cosines
- mathematicsA hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the cosine function for hyperbolic spaces, taking in a hyperbolic angle as an argument and returning the y-coordinate for the corresponding point on the unit hyperbola, symbolically represented as
cosh (x)= tfrac 1 2(eˣ+e⁻ˣ).
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Translations
Bulgarian хиперболичен косинус
- хиперболичен косинус (hiperboličen kosinus)hyperbolic function
Chinese Mandarin 雙曲函數 /双曲函数
- 雙曲函數 /双曲函数 (shuāngqū hánshù)hyperbolic function
Finnish hyperbolinen kosini
- hyperbolinen kosinihyperbolic function
French cosinus hyperbolique
- cosinus hyperboliquehyperbolic function
Icelandic breiðbogakósínus
- breiðbogakósínushyperbolic function
Japanese ハイパボリックコサイン, 双曲余弦
- ハイパボリックコサイン (haipaborikku kosain)hyperbolic function
- 双曲余弦 (sōkyoku yogen)hyperbolic function
Polish cosinus hiperboliczny
- cosinus hiperbolicznyhyperbolic function
Russian гиперболи́ческий ко́синус
- гиперболи́ческий ко́синус (giperbolíčeskij kósinus)hyperbolic function
Swedish cosinus hyperbolicus
- cosinus hyperbolicushyperbolic function
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