sinus

CEFRB1

/ˈsaɪ.nəs/

noun

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01
noun
A hollow space in a bone, especially near the nose.
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noun
Extra detail
An irregular venous or lymphatic cavity, reservoir, or dilated vessel.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
An abnormal cavity or passage such as a fistula, leading from a deep-seated infection and discharging pus to the surface.
Relating to or denoting the sinoatrial node of the heart or its function of regulating the heartbeat.

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The variations are described in terms of cycles of sinuses and cosinuses.
1996, Pentti Zetterberg, Matti Eronen, Markus Lindholm, “Construction of a 7500-Year Tree-Ring Record for Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.) in Northern Fennoscandia and its Applic...
So, in the helicopteron, as the helix is at the same time a sustaining plane, it should be likened to a surface moving horizontally, and in which, consequenty, the resistance to motion will be to the lifting power as the sinus is to the cosinus of the angle formed by such plane with the horizon.
1884 November 29, “Aerial Navigation”, in Scientific American: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures, volume LI, number 22, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., translation of original by Victor Tatin in La Nature, page 342, column 1
Basically, the rotation of the matrix of the factor loadings L represents its post-multiplication, i.e. L* = LO by the rotation matrix O, which itself resembles one of the matrices included in the classical rotational Lie groups SO(m) (containing the specific m–fold combination of sinuses and cosinuses.
2007, Vladimir G. Ivancevic, Tijana T. Ivancevic, “Introduction: Human and Computational Mind”, in Computational Mind: A Complex Dynamics Perspective (Studies in Computational Intelligence; 60), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, →LCCN, section 1 (Natural Intelligence and Human Mind), pages 60–61

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Learned borrowing from Latin sinus (“a bent surface, curve, hollow”). Doublet of sine.