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Six example sentences with cosine, each labelled with its topic.
Game engines compute the cosine of the angle between two vectors to decide how brightly a surface should be lit.
Technology
Surveyors multiply the slope length by its cosine to recover the true horizontal distance across a sloping building site.
Architecture
A wide lens dims the frame corners because illumination falls with the cosine of the tilt away from center.
Photography
The work done by a force equals its size times the distance moved times the cosine of the angle between them.
Science
A pure tone traced on an oscilloscope is a cosine wave, and every richer sound is a stack of them.
Music
A solar panel's output falls with the cosine of the sun's angle, so a fixed roof array loses power in early morning.
Environment
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