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.
PROMINENCE
prominence
(noun) relative importance
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; “the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”; “the hump of a camel”; “he stood on the rocky prominence”; “the occipital protuberance was well developed”; “the bony excrescence between its horns”
prominence
(noun) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
prominence (countable and uncountable, plural prominences)
The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
Relative importance.
A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
(topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
Source: Wiktionary
Prom"i*nence, Prom"i*nen*cy, n. Etym: [L. prominentia: cf. F. prominence. See Prominent. ]
1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.
2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences. (Astron.) See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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