In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
CONTINUUM
continuum
(noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
continuum (plural continuums or continua)
A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
A continuous extent.
(mathematics) The set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
(musical instruments) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1/100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
Synonyms
• (set of real numbers): ℝ (translingual)
Source: Wiktionary
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DERMATOGLYPHICS
(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”
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