trig - use in sentences

Object

  • point: Went to trig point not tumulus on advice of Paddy Dillon book.

Converse of object

  • have: The other Scalpay, off Harris, doesn't have a trig either.
  • find: An hour later, however - a whole bloody hour - I still hadn't found the trig.
  • use: This required taking noon observations and using trig to determine the precise angle of a shadow relative to the perpendicular of the wall.
  • reach: When I reached the trig I actually wrung out my sweaty shirt ( at 21:00!

Adjective modifier

  • fixed: See also: V3D_f, polygon3d, Fixed point trig.
  • primary: Furthermore, Butser is one of the 340 primary trigs ( 4 ) spread across Britain.
  • simple: Simple trig ought to work for cloud, if the angle can be measured.
  • local: The existing ring traverse control points and the local Soviet trigs were included within this framework.

Modifies a noun

  • pillar: The trig pillar is reached only 250m from the road - sadly, the map fails to give the spot height.
  • point: Still feeling fit, I reached the trig point without further rest: 7 hours from the off.
  • function: How do you actually work out the values of functions like the trig functions or the exponential?
  • number: Reading a trig point number equates to being dealt a hand of four or five cards.
  • height: Should we try to persuade the OS to give trig point heights to 0.1m on future Explorer maps?
  • column: An outcrop just beyond the trig column appeared to be the highest point.

Noun used with modifier

  • summit: Out the forest the summit trig perched on a green hill not too far away.
  • point: See also: V3D_f, polygon3d, Fixed point trig.

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