Kosinus
German, noun[ˈkoːzinʊs]
Kosinus is spelled K-O-S-I-N-U-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written German, the 182,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kosinus is a German masculine noun meaning “cosine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “eine Funktion, die in der Trigonometrie eine zentrale Rolle spielt und das Verhältnis der Länge der Ankathete…”.
What does Kosinus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecosine
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. eine Funktion, die in der Trigonometrie eine zentrale Rolle spielt und das Verhältnis der Länge der Ankathete zur Länge der Hypotenuse in einem rechtwinkligen Dreieck angibt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Kosinus
- Kosinusse plural
- Kosinussen dative definite plural
- Cosinus alternative
- cos abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Kosinus?
- [ˈkoːzinʊs]
- plural [ˈkoːzinuːs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Kosinus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Kosinus in German?
Kosinus appears about once in every 11 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).