In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
PARALLELEPIPED
parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon
(noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
parallelepiped (plural parallelepipeds)
(geometry) A solid figure, having six faces, all parallelograms; all opposite faces being similar and parallel.
• A cuboid is a rectangular parallelepiped.
Hyponyms
• cuboid
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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