DEMOGRAPHIC

demographic

(adjective) of or relating to demography; “demographic surveys”

demographic

(noun) a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

demographic (comparative more demographic, superlative most demographic)

Of or pertaining to demography.

Noun

demographic (plural demographics)

(chiefly, in plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.

A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.

Synonym: demo (informal)

An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Source: Wiktionary



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(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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