bowstring

The words for sine and cosine derive from the sanskrit jiva (meaning bowstring, i.e., the chord of a circle)[1].

You can make an untraceable deadly weapon with <$1 of bowstring and a random piece of timber, no 3d printer required.

Their impressive draw weights are mostly consumed by inefficiencies in arm weight/elasticity and bowstring weight.

Power stroke is the distance between the end of the bowstring, when fully loaded, and between the front of the bow.

Like if you cut a bowstring at full draw, you're probably going to break one of the limbs of the bow.

I think kinetic or chemical refers to the type of energy that puts the project in motion, from something like a bowstring to rocket propellant.

MCP may be crappy but it's a flint and steel versus a bowstring.

A couple years later, I'd made arrows and single curve bows from pine branches and bowstring from braided water rushes.

I'm quite fond of bowstring as a material for this sort of thing.

They even had a bowstring factory in Ravenna; The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization gives a sense of just how modern their society was (in some regards).

For me I think it was caused by hurting myself with the bowstring pretty badly on a botched shot and my mind would just freeze up anticipating that pain...

You can draw the bowstring all the way to Mars if you want to, but the only people to blame for the monstrous regime of Iran are the people who put that regime in place, and that certainly wasn't the Americans.

Draw a picture of a circle with a vertically oriented chord (the word “chord” also implies a bowstring), and a student will have a much easier time remembering what the sine is.

The word “sine” comes from a weird Latinization of an Indian word for “half a bowstring”.

;) But anyway, the etymology helps: “sine” = medieval Latin translation of an Arabic corruption of a word originally from India and meaning “half a bowstring”.