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

• arcsecant
• bisecant
• hyperbolic secant
• quadrisecant
• 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 f (chedak rekhā)
• Hungarian: szelő (hu)
• Icelandic: sniðill m
• Ido: sekanto (io)
• Japanese: 割線 (ja) (かっせん, kassen)
• Kannada: ಛೇದಕ (kn) (chēdaka)
• Macedonian: пресечка f pl (presečka)
• 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
• Turkish: sekant (tr)
• Ukrainian: січна́ f (sičná)
• Vietnamese: cát tuyến (vi)

in trigonometry

• Afrikaans: sekans (af), 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 (ja) (sekanto), 正割 (ja) (せいかつ, seikatsu)
• Khmer: សេកង់ (seekɑng)
• Macedonian: пресечка f (presečka)
• 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
• Turkish: sekant (tr)
• Ukrainian: се́канс (uk) m (sékans)
• Vietnamese: hàm sec

Adjective

secant (not comparable)

1. That cuts or divides.

Derived terms

• secancy
• secantly

Further reading

• “secant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “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): (Northern, Central) [səˈkan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈkant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈkant]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [seˈkan]

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

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