What does tangent and cotangent give us?

Question

Like sine is used to get the y coordinate, cosine is used to give the x coordinate, what does tangent and cotangent give?

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Answer 1

here, this is a very useful diagram for all of the trig functions https://i.stack.imgur.com/YNvin.png

so tan is the length of a line tangent to the circle at an angle to where it intersects the x axis, cot is to the y axis, and cosec/sec are how far out that intersect is