In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
STANDARDISATION
calibration, standardization, standardisation
(noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument; “the thermometer needed calibration”
standardization, standardisation, normalization, normalisation
(noun) the imposition of standards or regulations; “a committee was appointed to recommend terminological standardization”
standardization, standardisation
(noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established; “standardization of nuts and bolts had saved industry millions of dollars”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
standardisation (countable and uncountable, plural standardisations)
British standard spelling of standardization.
Source: Wiktionary
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UNSEASONED
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
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