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.
ORDINATES
Noun
ordinates
plural of ordinate
Verb
ordinates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ordinate
Anagrams
• andorites, notarised, ordainest, soda niter, soda nitre
Source: Wiktionary
ORDINATE
Or"di*nate, a. Etym: [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.]
Definition: Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.
Or"di*nate, n. (Geom.)
Definition: The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
Note: The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named, the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See Coordinate.
Or"di*nate, v. t.
Definition: To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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