In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
QUINOLONE
Etymology
Noun
quinolone (plural quinolones)
(organic compound) Any of several isomeric ketones derived from quinoline.
(medicine) Any of a range of broad-spectrum antibiotics, related to nalidixic acid, based on this structure.
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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