A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

SINE

Wed, 17 May '23
Kind of wave
Sun, 2 Oct '22
Without: Lat.
Fri, 16 Sep '22
___ wave
Sun, 28 Aug '22
Wave to one's math professor?
Sat, 5 Mar '22
Kind of wave
Thu, 23 Dec '21
It's 1 for 90°
Sun, 19 Dec '21
Trig function
Fri, 3 Sep '21
0, for 0°
Fri, 7 May '21
Reciprocal of cosecant
Sun, 4 Apr '21
Ratio of an angle's opposite side to the hypotenuse
Thu, 11 Mar '21
Function yielding 0 when applied to pi