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.
TRACTRIX
Noun
tractrix (plural tractrices)
(geometry) A curve that satisfies the following property: that segment of the tangent line that lies between the point of tangency and a fixed line has length independent of the point of tangency chosen.
Source: Wiktionary
Tract"rix, n. Etym: [NL. See Tractor.] (Geom.)
Definition: A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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