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.
FREQUENCE
frequency, frequence, oftenness
(noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period; “the frequency of modulation was 40 cycles per second”; “the frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
frequence (countable and uncountable, plural frequences)
(obsolete) A crowd or throng; a concourse.
(obsolete) frequency; abundance
Source: Wiktionary
Fre"quence, n. Etym: [See Frequency.]
1. A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] Tennyson.
2. Frequency; abundance. [R.] Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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