SOHCAHTOA

This saying is an acronym (like NASA or USA) in which each letter stands for a word.

People use SOHCAHTOA to remember the folling trigonometric ratios:

S O H
Sine Opposite side Hypotenuse
C A H
Cosine Adjacent side Hypotenuse
T O A
Tangent Opposite side Adjacent

 

a detailed lesson on SOHCAHTOA.