Secant

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Secant is a term in mathematics. It comes from the Latin secare (to cut). It can refer to:

• a secant line, in geometry and map projections
• the secant method, a root-finding algorithm in numerical analysis, based on secant lines to graphs of functions
• the trigonometric function, reciprocal to the cosine.

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