- The trigonometric ratios of sine, cosine, and tangent can be used to find the measures of angles in right triangles.
- For a given angle, the trig ratios are defined as the ratio of the length of the side opposite to the angle over the length of the hypotenuse (sine), the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to the angle over the hypotenuse (cosine), and the ratio of the opposite side over the adjacent side (tangent).
- The inverse trig functions (cotangent, secant, cosecant) are defined in terms of the tangent, cosine, and sine ratios respectively.