Napier, John Napier
(noun) Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
