secant /sēˈkənt or sekˈənt/

Cutting

1. A cutting line
2. A straight line which cuts a curve in two or more places (geometry)
3. Orig a straight line from the centre of a circle through one end of an arc to the tangent from the other end (mathematics)
4. One of the six trigonometrical functions of an angle, the ratio of the hypotenuse to the side of a right-angled triangle formed by dropping a perpendicular from a point on one side of the angle to the other (negative if the base is the side produced) (abbrev sec)

secˈantly adverb

• ex-service
• ex-serviceman
• ex-servicemen
• ex-servicewoman
• exsiccant
• exsiccate
• exsiccated
• exsiccates
• exsiccating
• exsiccation
• exsiccations
• exsiccative
• exsiccator
• exsiccators
• ex silentio
• exstipulate
• exsuccous
• exsufflate
• exsufflated
• exsufflates
• exsufflating
• exsufflation
• exsufflations
• exsufflicate
• ext.