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Cos

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Cos  (ks, kôs)
See Kos.
cos 1  (kôs, ks)
n.
See romaine.
[After Cos (Kos).]
cos 2
abbr.
cosine
Cos [kɒs]
n
(Placename) a variant spelling of Kos
COS
abbreviation for
(Military) Chief of Staff
cos1, cos lettuce [kɒs]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a variety of lettuce with a long slender head and crisp leaves Compare cabbage lettuce Usual US and Canadian name romaine
[named after Kos, the Aegean island of its origin]
cos2
abbreviation for
(Mathematics) cosine
cos
Abbreviation of cosine
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cos - ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
cosine
circular function, trigonometric function - function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle
2.Coscos - lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
romaine, romaine lettuce, cos lettuce
lettuce - leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa
Translations
cos1 [kɒs] N (Brit) (also cos lettuce) → lechuga f romana
cos1 abbr of cosine → cos
cos2
n (also cos lettuce) → Romagnasalat m, → römischer Salat m


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Lu and lo, Bradley knew to mean man and woman; ata; was employed variously to indicate life, eggs, young, reproduction and kindred subject; cos was a negative; but in combination they were meaningless to the European.
Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnian islands, these were commanded by Pheidippus and Antiphus, two sons of King Thessalus the son of Hercules.
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