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.
KET
Etymology 1
Noun
ket (plural kets)
(physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
A particular ket, say , might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, , would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.
Etymology 2
Noun
ket (countable and uncountable, plural kets)
(Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
(Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
(Geordie) A sweet, treat or candy.
Etymology 3
Abbreviation.
Noun
ket (uncountable)
(colloquial) ketamine
Etymology 4
Noun
ket (uncountable)
(Scotland) matted wool
Noun
Ket (plural Kets or Ket)
A member of a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.
Proper noun
Ket
The Yeniseian language of this people.
Source: Wiktionary
Ket, n. Etym: [Icel. kjöt flesh; akin to Sw. kött, Dan. kjöd.]
Definition: Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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