According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.
SEPARATRIX
solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
(noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
separatrix (plural separatrixes or separatrices)
(typography, historical) The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
Synonyms: pipe, slash
(typography, obsolete) synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
(typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨ | ⟩ placed after a note in the margin to indicate that it should replace the item(s) struckthrough in the running text or to separate it from other margin notes.
A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
(physics) The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
(mathematics) The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.
Source: Wiktionary
Sep`a*ra"trix, n.; pl. L. -trices, E. -trixes. Etym: [L., she that separates.] (Arith.)
Definition: The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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