sinus
French, noun/si.nys/
sinus is spelled S-I-N-U-S (5 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written French, the 25,925th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sinus is a French masculine noun meaning “sinus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Formation anatomique creuse, liquidienne ou pneumatique”.
What does sinus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinesinus
- 2
masculinesine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Formation anatomique creuse, liquidienne ou pneumatique. 2. Cavité pneumatique irrégulière de certains os du crane. 3. Aspect dilaté de certains vaisseaux, de certains conduits. 4. Le sinus d’un angle dans un triangle rectangle est égal au rapport de la longueur du coté opposé à l’angle par celle de l’hypoténuse. Si on oriente les angles, le sinus est un nombre compris entre −1 et +1.
noun: 1. Système informatique d’identification et de traçabilité des victimes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce sinus?
- /si.nys/
- \si.nys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sinus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sinus in French?
sinus appears 1.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).