Kolpos Kolpos The kolpos (Greek: κόλποις κόλπον κόλπῳ, a gulf, bay or creek) is the "blousing" of a peplos, chiton or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs folded over a zone (a narrow girdle). The fabric of the garment was typically cut longer than the shoulder-to-floor measurement of the women or man wearing it. The excess length was dealt with at the waist (creating the kolpos) and optionally the top edge (creating the apoptygma). To create the kolpos, a zone was tied around the body below the breast (high-girdled) or at the waist (low-girdled) and
Sine "Euler's formula", as well as the near-modern abbreviations "sin., cos., tang., cot., sec.," and "cosec." Etymologically, the word "sine" derives from the Sanskrit word for chord, "jiva"*("jya" being its more popular synonym). This was transliterated in Arabic as "jiba" جيب, which however is meaningless in that language and abbreviated "jb" جب . Since Arabic is written without short vowels, "jb" was interpreted as the word "jaib" جيب, which means "bosom". When the Arabic texts were translated in the 12th century into Latin by Gerard of Cremona, he used the Latin equivalent for "bosom", "sinus" (which means "bosom" or "bay" or