TRIGONOMETRY in a Sentence

Learn TRIGONOMETRY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for TRIGONOMETRY, such as:
1. But the minds of rats could not understand trigonometry.
2. We may determine the height of a mountain by trigonometry.
3. I worked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and began Virgil alone.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRIGONOMETRY
trigonometry
 n.  the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
Classic Sentence:
1  I worked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and began Virgil alone.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
2  But the minds of rats could not understand trigonometry.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  We may determine the height of a mountain by trigonometry.