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
History of trigonometry of Enlightenment, beginning with 17th-century mathematics (Isaac Newton and James Stirling) and reaching its modern form with Leonhard Euler (1748). The term "trigonometry" was derived from Greek τρίγωνον "trigōnon", "triangle" and μέτρον "metron", "measure". The modern word "sine" is derived from the Latin word "sinus", which means "bay", "bosom" or "fold" is indirectly, via Indian, Persian and Arabic transmission, derived from the Greek term "khordḗ" "bow-string, chord". The Greek term was adopted into Sanskrit as "jyā" "bow-string", later also in the variant "jīvā". Sanskrit "jīvā" was rendered adopted into Arabic as "jiba", written "jb" جب. This was then interpreted as