In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
BIOMETRICS
biometrics, biometry, biostatistics
(noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
biometrics (uncountable)
The automated measurement of biological data.
The automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics.
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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