secant

See also: sécant

English

Etymology

From Latin secāns, present participle of secō (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sē'kənt, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkənt/
• Rhymes: -iːkənt

• Audio (US):

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Noun

secant (plural secants)

1. (geometry) A straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points.
2. (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec

Derived terms

• hyperbolic secant
• secant method

Related terms

• cosecant
• section
• sector

Translations

in geometry

Bulgarian: секателна f (sekatelna) Chinese: Mandarin: 割線 / 割线 (zh) (gēxiàn) Czech: sečna f Danish: sekant (da) c Finnish: leikkaaja (fi), sekantti (fi) French: sécante (fr) f German: Sekante (de) f Greek: τέμνουσα (témnousa) Hindi: छेदक रेखा m (chedak rekhā) Hungarian: szelő (hu) Icelandic: sniðill m Ido: sekanto (io) Japanese: 割線 (ja) (かっせん, kassen) Kannada: ಛೇದಕ (kn) (chēdaka) Polish: sieczna f Portuguese: secante (pt) f Punjabi: ਛੇਦਕ ਰੇਖਾ m (chedak rekhā) Romanian: secantă (ro) f Russian: секу́щая (ru) f (sekúščaja) Spanish: secante f Tagalog: tangab Thai: เส้นตัด Ukrainian: січна́ f (sičná) Vietnamese: cát tuyến (vi)

in trigonometry

Afrikaans: sekans, sekanse pl Arabic: قَاطِع m (qāṭiʕ) Bulgarian: секанс m (sekans) Catalan: secant (ca) f Cebuano: kaliras Chinese: Mandarin: 正割 (zh) (zhènggē) Czech: sekans m Finnish: sekantti (fi) French: sécante (fr) f German: Sekans m Greek: τέμνουσα (témnousa) Hungarian: szekáns (hu) Ido: sekanto (io) Italian: secante (it) f Japanese: セカント (sekanto), 正割 (ja) (せいかつ, seikatsu) Khmer: សេកង់ (seekɑng) Polish: sekans (pl) m Portuguese: secante (pt) f Romanian: secantă (ro) f Russian: се́канс (ru) m (sékans) Spanish: secante f Tagalog: sekway Tamil: இணைச்செவ்வளை நேர்மாற்று (iṇaiccevvaḷai nērmāṟṟu) Thai: ซีแคนต์ Ukrainian: се́канс (uk) m (sékans) Vietnamese: hàm sec

Adjective

secant (not comparable)

1. That cuts or divides.

Further reading

• “secant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “secant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ascent, casten, enacts, scante, stance

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin secantem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səˈkan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈkant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈkant]

Noun

secant f (plural secants)

1. (trigonometry) secant

Derived terms

• cosecant

Further reading

• “secant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Etymology 2

Verb

secant

1. gerund of secar

Latin

Verb

secant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of secō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sécant.

Noun

secant f (plural secanți)

1. secant

Declension

Declension of secant

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	secant	secan		secanți	secanțile
genitive-dative	secanți	secanții		secanți	secanților
vocative	—			—