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.
DIPOLE
dipole, dipole antenna
(noun) an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center
dipole
(noun) a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
dipole (plural dipoles)
(physics) any object (such as a magnet, polar molecule or antenna) that is oppositely charged at two points (or poles)
(chemistry) any molecule or radical that has delocalised positive and negative charges
(radio) a dipole antenna
Anagrams
• diploe, diploë, elopid, lepido-, peloid
Source: Wiktionary
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