Cosecant

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The cosecant is a trigonometric function describing the ratio of the hypotenuse to the opposite side in a right triangle. It is often abbreviated as cosec or cose.

<math>\csc \theta = \sec \left(\frac{\pi}{2} - \theta \right) = \frac{1}{\sin \theta}\,</math>