Trigonometric ratios

The answer

SINES

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

Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• SECANTS (4 uses in xd)

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
• 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
• Right-triangle ratios - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• 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

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