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.
CONGRUENCE
congruity, congruousness, congruence
(noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
congruence (plural congruences)
The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.
(mathematics, number theory) A relation between two numbers indicating they give the same remainder when divided by some given number.
(mathematics, geometry) The quality of being isometric — roughly, the same measure and shape.
(algebra) More generally: any equivalence relation defined on an algebraic structure which is preserved by operations defined by the structure.
Synonyms
• congruency, congruity
Source: Wiktionary
Con"gru*ence, n. Etym: [L. congruentia: cf. OF. cornguence.]
Definition: Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency. Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SALTWORT
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
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