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.
EXTRINSIC
extrinsic
(adjective) not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside; “extrinsic evidence”; “an extrinsic feature of the new building”; “that style is something extrinsic to the subject”; “looking for extrinsic aid”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
extrinsic (comparative more extrinsic, superlative most extrinsic)
external; separable from the thing itself; inessential
not belonging to something; outside
Synonyms
• (separable from the thing itself): See also extrinsic
Antonyms
• intrinsic
• inherent
Noun
extrinsic (plural extrinsics)
An external factor
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*trin"sic, a. Etym: [L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See Exterior, Second.]
1. Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic. The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture. I. Taylor.
2. (Anat.)
Definition: Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other partintrinsic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HYDRAULIC
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