Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
FLUENCY
fluency, volubility, articulateness
(noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing
fluency
(noun) skillfulness in speaking or writing
eloquence, fluency, smoothness
(noun) powerful and effective language; “his eloquence attracted a large congregation”; “fluency in spoken and written English is essential”; “his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
fluency (countable and uncountable, plural fluencies)
The quality of smoothness of flow.
(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
Source: Wiktionary
Flu"en*cy, n. Etym: [L. fluentia: cf. F. fluence. See Fluent.]
Definition: The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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