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.
PYRAMIDAL
pyramidal, pyramidic, pyramidical
(adjective) resembling a pyramid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
pyramidal (not comparable)
(geometry) Pyramid-shaped.
(crystallography) Tetragonal.
Noun
pyramidal (plural pyramidals)
(anatomy) One of the carpal bones
Source: Wiktionary
Py*ram`i*dal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. pyramidal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage. The mystic obelisks stand up Triangular, pyramidal. Mrs. Browning.
2. (Crystallog.)
Definition: Same as Tetragonal. Pyramidal numbers (Math.), certain series of figurate numbers expressing the number of balls or points that may be arranged in the form of pyramids. Thus 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are trangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.
Py*ram"i*dal, n. (Anat.)
Definition: One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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