In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
DEFLATIONARY
deflationary
(adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money; “deflationary measures”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
deflationary (not comparable)
Associated with or tending to cause deflation.
(philosophy, logic) Belonging or relating to a family of theories claiming that assertions that predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called truth to such a statement.
Source: Wiktionary
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ACCURATE
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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