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.
INTEGRATOR
integrator, planimeter
(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
integrator (plural integrators)
A person who, or a device which, integrates.
A device that calculates definite integrals.
Any electronic device that sums a measurement over time.
Source: Wiktionary
In"te*gra`tor, n. (Math. & Mech.)
Definition: That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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