An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EVOLUTE
Noun
evolute (plural evolutes)
(geometry) A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
Adjective
evolute
(malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
Coordinate terms
• advolute
• involute
• convolute
Anagrams
• veloutĂ©
Source: Wiktionary
Ev"o*lute, n. Etym: [L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See Evolve.] (Geom.)
Definition: A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.
Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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