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.
SYNCLASTIC
Etymology
Adjective
synclastic
(of a surface) curved toward the same side in all directions
(mathematics) of a surface whose Gaussian curvature is positive at all points
Antonyms
• anticlastic
Source: Wiktionary
Syn*clas"tic, a. Etym: [Pref. syn- + Gr. kla^n to break.] (Math. Physics)
Definition: Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic. Sir W. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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