Captain Crusader and Koulatio are correct: sin-1 is inverse sine and can also be labelled arcsin. It is defined such that arcsin(sin(x)) = x = sin(arcsin(x)).

For instance, we know that sin(pi/2) = 1; we can turn this around, and say pi/2 = arcsin(1).

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