According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
HOMALOID
Noun
homaloid (plural homaloids)
(geometry) An element of a homaloidal system, in particular the image of a hyperplane under a Cremona transformation.
Source: Wiktionary
Hom"a*loid, Hom`a*loid"al, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Geom.)
Definition: Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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