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.
Graphing the sine function. When the sine of an angle is graphed against the angle, the result is a shape similar to that on the right, called a sine wave. For more on this see Graphing the sine function. The derivative of sin(x) In calculus, the derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). This means that at any value of x, the rate of change or slope of sin(x) is cos(x).