According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
TANGENTIAL
digressive, tangential
(adjective) of superficial relevance if any; “a digressive allusion to the day of the week”; “a tangential remark”
tangential
(adjective) of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; “tangential forces”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tangential (comparative more tangential, superlative most tangential)
Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
Only indirectly related.
Anagrams
• antitangle
Source: Wiktionary
Tan*gen"tial, a. (Geom.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity.
– Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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