sine
/saɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
noun
Acronym of short interspersed element, a type of retrotransposon in genomics.
noun
Acronym of selective inhibitors of nuclear export, a drug for epithelioid sarcoma.
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: جَيْب, جِيبَ, ज्या, जीव