RESISTIBILITY

Noun

resistibility (countable and uncountable, plural resistibilities)

The condition of being resistible.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*sist`i*bil"i*ty (--bl"-t), n..

1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.

2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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TRANSPOSITION

(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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