Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arccosine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ar-c-co-sine
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- English co- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English cosine English arccosine From arc- + cosine.

Inflected Forms

arccosines (plural)

Synonyms

anticosine inverse cosine arccos cos-1 arc cosine

Questions

What does arccosine mean?: Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the cosine function.
Where does arccosine come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Latin arcusder. English arc- English co- Proto-Indo-European *sinos Proto-Italic *sinus Latin sinusbor. English sine English cosine English arccosine From arc- + cosine.

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