The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Sine

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A perpendicular line form one extremity of an arc to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

Artificial Sines. Logarithms of the sines.

Line of Sines. A divided line on Gunter's scale.

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