An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BENCHMARK
benchmark, bench mark
(noun) a surveyor’s mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
benchmark
(noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged; “his painting sets the benchmark of quality”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
benchmark (plural benchmarks)
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
Verb
benchmark (third-person singular simple present benchmarks, present participle benchmarking, simple past and past participle benchmarked)
(transitive) To measure the performance or quality of (an item) relative to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner.
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(ambitransitive, followed be against) To use something (e.g, a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
Source: Wiktionary
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