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His sine law allows anyone with a decent grounding in trigonometry to use a pendulum to determine their latitude.
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Hill sines, as does Daniel J. Watts as Sammy Davis Jr. Through Dec. 3. - J.T. Long Day's Journey into Night (Quintessence Theatre Group/Sedgwick Theatre).
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Fund-raising alone takes up a massive amount of time, since the sine qua non of any modern political campaign is, of course, money.
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A commitment to opposing tax hikes of any kind had, until recently, been the sine qua non for national success as a Republican.
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Ward 9 Kevin Conwell*: Member of City Council sine 2001.
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Most of the efforts came together on the last day as lawmakers hurried to finish more than 100 bills amid the fanfare of sine die — the Latin term to adjourn without a date to convene again.
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That one-two punch, Mr. Achatz later said, was meant to convey a sense of tension and release, a ride from valley to peak along the emotional sine curve.
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The link was so clear it could be described in derivative sines and cosines, mathematical concepts taught in college trigonometry.
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Origin and Etymology of sine
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Definition of sine for English Language Learners
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geometry : the ratio between the long side (called the hypotenuse) and the side that is opposite to an acute angle in a right triangle
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