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.
HETEROGENEITY
heterogeneity, heterogeneousness
(noun) the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
heterogeneity (countable and uncountable, plural heterogeneities)
(uncountable) Diversity
(countable) A composition of diverse parts.
(uncountable) The quality of a substance which is not uniform.
Antonyms
• homogeneity
Source: Wiktionary
Het`er*o*ge*ne"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. hétérogénéité.]
Definition: The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety. The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRANSPOSITION
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
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