Right-triangle ratios

The answer

SINES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SINES answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SINES

Every other clue in this collection answered by SINES, most used first.

• Trig functions - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Trig ratios - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
• Trigonometric functions - used 20 times, most recently in 2011
• Math ratios - used 15 times, most recently in 2018
• Certain trig ratios - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Some curves - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Trigonometric ratios - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Math functions - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Mathematical ratios. - used 7 times, most recently in 1966
• Trigonometry ratios - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Some trig ratios - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Trig terms - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Trigonometry functions - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

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• Not quite right - AMISS, used 181 times
• Right-hand page - RECTO, used 143 times
• Just right - IDEAL, used 83 times
• Davis of "Do the Right Thing" - OSSIE, used 56 times
• "Moving right __ . . ." - ALONG, used 40 times
• Make things right - ATONE, used 36 times

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