If you go to Wells Fargo and apply for a home loan, for example, they will conduct a thorough examination of your credit and financial background. They do this to determine whether or not you're a good candidate for a loan. As a whole, this process is referred to as mortgage underwriting, and it has many steps.
Definition of cosine for English Language Learners. geometry : the ratio between the long side (called the hypotenuse) and the side that is next to an acute angle in a right triangle.
The tangent (tan) of an angle is the ratio of the sine to the cosine: Finally, the reciprocal functions secant (sec), cosecant (csc), and cotangent (cot) are the reciprocals of the cosine, sine, and tangent: These definitions are sometimes referred to as ratio identities.