Two things that are adjacent to each other are in contact with each other without overlapping. Examples are adjacent apartments, adjacent states, and adjacent sides of a polygon.
The word adjacent as used in the definitions of the cosine and tangent trigonometric functions can be a little confusing because, obviously, it takes two sides to make an angle in a polygon, so, technically, you could say that each angle is adjacent to two sides. When trig functions refer to the side adjacent to one of the acute angles in a right triangle, they are referring to the one that's not the hypotenuse, or, in other words, the one that is also adjacent to the right angle.
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Adjacent acute angle is not one word. An Adjacent angles are angles that are side by side.
Nearly! The cosine is the adjacent side (ie not the opposite side) divided by the hypotenuse.
Adjacent sides are sides that are immediately side by side. They are sides that form or subtend an angle.
The opposite side of an adjacent is the hypotenuse. Sin(q) = Opposite / Hypotenuse Cos(q) = Adjacent / Hypotenuse Tan(q) = Opposite / Adjacent Reference: http://easycalculation.com/trigonometry/triangle-angles.php
No they are not because adjacent angles are on the same side while vertical angles are on the opposite therefore vertical angles are non adjacent.