Secant, cosecant and cotangent, almost always written as sec, cosec and cot are trigonometric functions like sin, cos and tan. sec x = 1 cos x. cosec x = 1 sin x cot x = 1 = cos x tan x sin x. Note, sec x is not the same as cos-1 x (sometimes written as arccos x). More @Wikipedia
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