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I guess you are meaning the standard trigonometric ratios regarding the cos/sin/tan of angles in a right angled triangle.

I was taught this little rhyme:

Two Old Arabs

Soft Of Heart

Coshed Andy Hatchett

Using the initial letters of each of the words:

T O A

S O H

C A H

Gives:

Tan = Opposite / Adjacent

Sin = Opposite / Hypotenuse

Cos = Adjacent / Hypotenuse

Later I met the nonsense word SOHCAHTOA (pronounced So-ka-toe-ah or Sock-a-toe-ah) in which the letters are the ratios as before and which is slightly more useful in that in that order it gives a reminder that Sin/Cos = Tan. However, it does require being able to spell the unusual "word".

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