law of tangents
English
Noun
law
of
tangents
(
trigonometry
)
A
statement
about the relationship between the tangents of two
angles
of a
triangle
and the
lengths
of the opposing
sides
.
Translations
statement
Finnish:
tangenttilause
Greek:
νόμος των εφαπτομένων
m
(
nómos ton efaptoménon
)
Hungarian:
tangenstétel
See also
law of cosines
,
law of cotangents
,
law of sines