The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
GEOMETRY
geometry
(noun) the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
geometry (countable and uncountable, plural geometries)
(mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
(mathematics, often qualified in combination, countable) A mathematical system that deals with spatial relationships and that is built on a particular set of axioms; a subbranch of geometry which deals with such a system or systems.
(countable) The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc.
Holonyms
• mathematics
Source: Wiktionary
Ge*om"e*try, n; pl. Geometries Etym: [F. géométrie, L. geometria, fr. Gr. Geometer.]
1. That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
2. A treatise on this science. Analytical, or Coördinate, geometry, that branch of mathematical analysis which has for its object the analytical investigation of the relations and properties of geometrical magnitudes.
– Descriptive geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the graphic solution of all problems involving three dimensions.
– Elementary geometry, that part of geometry which treats of the simple properties of straight lines, circles, plane surface, solids bounded by plane surfaces, the sphere, the cylinder, and the right cone.
– Higher geometry, that pert of geometry which treats of those properties of straight lines, circles, etc., which are less simple in their relations, and of curves and surfaces of the second and higher degrees.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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