According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
PREFORMATION
preformation, theory of preformation
(noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
preformation (countable and uncountable, plural preformations)
Prior formation.
(biology, historical) The theory that organisms are fully developed in the form of an egg or seed, and just increase in size (as opposed to epigenesis).
Source: Wiktionary
Pre`for*ma"tion, n. (Biol.)
Definition: An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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