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.
HOMOGRAPHY
Etymology
Noun
homography (countable and uncountable, plural homographies)
The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
(geometry) An isomorphism between projective spaces that maps straight lines to straight lines.
Synonyms: projectivity, projective transformation, projective collineation
Hypernym: collineation
Hyponyms: linear fractional transformation, Möbius transformation
Source: Wiktionary
Ho*mog"ra*phy, n.
1. That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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