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.
ERLANG
Erlang
(noun) a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
From A. K. Erlang
Noun
erlang (plural erlangs)
(communication) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
Synonyms
• E
Anagrams
• Langer, Nagler, Nergal, Rangel, angler, gen'ral, langer, largen, rangle, regnal
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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