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.
RAPIDITY
celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
(noun) a rate that is rapid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
rapidity (countable and uncountable, plural rapidities)
speed, swiftness; the condition of being rapid
(physics) A measure of velocity relative to the speed of light
(physics) A measure of the velocity of a particle in a beam relative to the beam's axis
Source: Wiktionary
Ra*pid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. rapiditas: cf. F. rapidité.]
Definition: The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.
Syn.
– -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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