hyperbolic cotangent; a hyperbolic function that is the ratio of cosh to sinh, being the reciprocal of tanh
Word origin
C20: from cot(angent) + h(yperbolic)
Examples of 'coth' in a sentence
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The generalized tanh-coth method was used to construct periodic wave and solitary wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations.
Jalil Manafian Heris, Mehrdad Lakestani 2013, 'Solitary wave and periodic wave solutions for variants of the KdV-Burger and the K(n,n)-Burger equations by the generalized tanh-coth method', Communications in Numerical Analysishttp://www.ispacs.com/journals/cna/2013/cna-00155/article.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)