Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
KYMOGRAPH
kymograph, cymograph
(noun) scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
kymograph (plural kymographs)
A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum.
Source: Wiktionary
Ky"mo*graph, n. Etym: [Gr. -graph.] (Physiol.)
Definition: An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal;
– called also kymographion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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