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Jyotisha (astronomy and astrology)

Source: Google Books: The goladhyaya in Nityananda’s Sarvasiddhanta-raja

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या) refers to the “co-sine”, according to a particular manuscript of Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja.—[...] The digital trace from f. 11 v (shown here to the right) depicts how Sine (jyā) and Co-sine (koṭijyā) of the arc-lengths (cāpas) are to be understood in terms of the parts of inscribed right triangles, and how the distribution of measures of arc helps the calculation of Sine values.

Source: Wikibooks (hi): Sanskrit Technical Terms

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या).—Cosine, R cosine. Note: Koṭijyā is a Sanskrit technical term used in ancient Indian sciences such as Astronomy, Mathematics and Geometry.

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Jyotisha (ज्योतिष, jyotiṣa or jyotish) refers to ‘astronomy’ or “Vedic astrology” and represents the fifth of the six Vedangas (additional sciences to be studied along with the Vedas). Jyotisha concerns itself with the study and prediction of the movements of celestial bodies, in order to calculate the auspicious time for rituals and ceremonies.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kōṭijyā (कोटिज्या).—f S The co-sine.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या) or Koṭījyā (कोटीज्या).—the cosine of an angle in a right-angled triangle (in math.).

Koṭijyā is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms koṭi and jyā (ज्या). See also (synonyms): koṭijīvā.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या).—f.

(-jyā) The cosine of an angle in a right-angled triangle. E. koṭi and jyā a sine.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या):—[=koṭi-jyā] [from koṭi > koṭa] f. idem, [Sūryasiddhānta]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Koṭijyā (कोटिज्या):—[koṭi-jyā] (jyā) 1. f. The cosine of an angle in a right angled triangle.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kotijya in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kōṭijyā (ಕೋಟಿಜ್ಯಾ):—[noun] the ratio of the adjacent side of a given acute angle in a right angle triangle to the hypotenuse; cosine.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Jya, Koti.

Ends with: Natakalakotijya, Shighrakendrakotijya.

Full-text: Kotijiva, Shighrakendrakotijya, Jya, Capa.

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