Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
TAUTOCHRONES
Noun
tautochrones
plural of tautochrone
Source: Wiktionary
TAUTOCHRONE
Tau"to*chrone, n. Etym: [Gr. tautochrone.] (Math.)
Definition: A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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